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[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 23 12:10:19 CET 2012 
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:22:55 +0100
Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> > >>>  Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed
> > >>> up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
> > >>> between 12x and 80x, depending on the application.
> > > 
> > > Congrats Stefan! And thanks for the huge chunk of code.
> > 
> > Seconded.  This is the kind of stuff that will make 3.3 the most awesomest
> > 3.x release ever (and hopefully convince people that it does make sense to
> > port)...
> 
> Thanks! For cdecimal specifically I have the impression that 3.x is already
> used in the financial community, where web framework dependencies aren't an
> issue.
> 
> On the web side, there seems to be a huge interest in speeding up database
> accesses, so let me evangelize again: Database applications using decimal
> will run 12x faster in 3.3.

Are you sure it isn't 12.5x ?

Regards

Antoine.
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