On 4/21/06, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish to participate in Google Summer of Code as a python developer. I > have few ideas, what would be improved and added to python. Since these > changes and add-ons would be codded in C, and added to python-core > and/or as modules,I am not sure, if you are willing to agree with these > ideas. > > First of all, I think, it would be good idea to speed up long int > implementation in python. Especially multiplying and converting > radix-2^k to radix-10^l. It might be done, using much faster algorithms > than already used, and transparently improve efficiency of multiplying > and printing/reading big integers.
That would be a good project, if someone is available to mentor it. (Tim Peters?) > Next thing I would add is multi precision floating point type to the > core and fraction type, which in some cases highly improves operations, > which would have to be done using floating point instead. > Of course, math module will need update to support multi precision > floating points, and with that, one could compute asin or any other > function provided with math with precision limited by memory and time. > It would be also good idea to add function which computes pi and exp > with unlimited precision. I would suggest doing this as a separate module first, rather than as a patch to the Python core. Can you show us some practical applications of these operations? > And last thing - It would be nice to add some number-theory functions to > math module (or new one), like prime-tests, factorizations etc. Probably better a new module. But how many people do you think need these? > Every of above improvements would be coded in pure C, and without using > external libraries, so portability of python won't be cracked, and no > new dependencies will be added. Great -- that's important! > I am waiting for your responses about my ideas, which of these you think > are good, which poor etc. Main reason I am posting my question here is > that, I am not sure, how much are you willing to change the core of the > python. > > At the end, let my apologize for my poor English, I am trying to do my best. No problem. We can understand you fine! -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
