Stefan Krah wrote:
> Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> I think my biggest concern is maintenance: we'd be replacing
>> 8500 lines of Python code in a single file, that several of the
>> current core developers understand well, with 3 (Stefan, is
>> that about accurate?) lines of C in several files, tha
Mark Dickinson wrote:
> > 2. Would fastdec - after achieving full decimal.py compatibility - be
> > a serious candidate?
>
> Definitely. As far as I know it's the only real candidate for a full
> C version of decimal right now. Other possibilities that I'm aware of:
>
> * I think Raymond Het
Mark Dickinson wrote:
> Thanks, Antoine! With SLOCCount I can revise my earlier numbers, as well:
> Here's Stefan Krah's mpdecimal, version 0.80:
>
> SLOCDirectory SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
> 21445 top_dir ansic=21267,sh=105,python=55,asm=18
> 6238python
Mark Dickinson schrieb:
> * There's a partially complete rewrite of decimal in C in the sandbox,
> dating from the Need for Speed sprint in 2006:
>
> http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/decimal-c/
>
> Last time I looked at this it wasn't up to date with the decimal
> specification: I'm not
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Mark Dickinson gmail.com> writes:
>> BTW, does anyone know the current SLOC count for py3k?
>
> Here you are, generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount':
> [...]
Thanks, Antoine! With SLOCCount I can revise my earlier numbers, as well
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> As far as decimal.py in particular goes, there are significant
> maintenance gains in keeping a lot of the non-performance critical
> context management code in pure Python. So we're likely to wait and see
> how much speed Mark can wring out
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Stefan Krah wrote:
> 1. Are you generally in favour of a C decimal module in Python?
I'm certainly interested in the general idea; whether I'd be in favour
of replacing decimal.py with a particular C version would depend on
a lot of factors, with code quality, in
Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> For example other python implementations might decide to use python
> version as long as builtin version does not appear. Python versions are
> usually also better targets for jit than mixed versions. C level versions also
> usually have more bugs (just statistics), so s
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> 2009/10/20 Stefan Krah :
>> Hi,
>>
>> as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision
>> C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module:
>>
>> http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html
>> http://www.bytereef.org/fa
2009/10/20 Stefan Krah :
> Hi,
>
> as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision
> C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module:
>
> http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html
> http://www.bytereef.org/fastdec.html
>
>
> Both the library and the module have been te
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 at 09:55, sstein...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:
sstein...@gmail.com wrote:
> Shouldn't this be on python-ideas?
I found previous discussions about "Decimal in C" on python-dev, that's why
used this list.
python-ideas:
This list is to
On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:
sstein...@gmail.com wrote:
Shouldn't this be on python-ideas?
I found previous discussions about "Decimal in C" on python-dev,
that's why
used this list.
python-ideas:
This list is to contain discussion of speculative language ideas for
sstein...@gmail.com wrote:
> Shouldn't this be on python-ideas?
I found previous discussions about "Decimal in C" on python-dev, that's why
used this list.
Stefan Krah
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 at 09:27, sstein...@gmail.com wrote:
Shouldn't this be on python-ideas?
IMO this question is appropriate for python-dev, not python-ideas.
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Shouldn't this be on python-ideas?
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On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Stefan Krah wrote:
Hi,
as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision
C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module:
http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html
http://www.bytereef.org/fastdec.ht
Hi,
as some of you know, recently I've released an arbitrary precision
C library for decimal arithmetic together with a Python module:
http://www.bytereef.org/libmpdec.html
http://www.bytereef.org/fastdec.html
Both the library and the module have been tested extensively. Fastdec
currently diffe
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