In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ajaksu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Running long(Decimal) is pretty slow, and the conversion is based on >strings. I'm trying to figure out whether there is a good reason for >using strings like in decimal.py (that reason would be bound to bite me >down the road).
I'm not sure why it's coded that, but it's somewhat irrelevant: right now, work is being done to convert decimal.py to C code, which will almost certainly be much faster than your code. Generally speaking, you should not be using Decimal now with any expectation of speed. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian W. Kernighan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
