Message 58416 - Python tracker

Message58416

Author	noam
Recipients	christian.heimes, gvanrossum, nascheme, noam, tim.peters
Date	2007-12-11.07:59:19
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Oh, this is sad. Now I know why Tcl have implemented also a decimal to binary routine. Perhaps we can simply use both their routines? If I am not mistaken, their only real dependency is on a library which allows arbitrary long integers, called tommath, from which they use a few basic functions. We can use instead the functions from longobject.c. It will probably be somewhat slower, since longobject.c wasn't created to allow in-place operations, but I don't think it should be that bad -- we are mostly talking about compile time.

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Oh, this is sad. Now I know why Tcl have implemented also a decimal to
binary routine.

Perhaps we can simply use both their routines? If I am not mistaken,
their only real dependency is on a library which allows arbitrary long
integers, called tommath, from which they use a few basic functions.
We can use instead the functions from longobject.c. It will probably
be somewhat slower, since longobject.c wasn't created to allow
in-place operations, but I don't think it should be that bad -- we are
mostly talking about compile time.

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