Re: [Python-Dev] C Decimal - is there any interest?

2007-10-16 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Facundo Batista wrote: >2007/10/15, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Welcome back, :) > > Hi :> >>merging C Decimal with main tree are much lower than year ago, so I >>would like to know if there is still interest in C version of Decimal. >

Re: [Python-Dev] C Decimal - is there any interest?

2007-10-16 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Grzegorz Makarewicz wrote: > >Python in high aritmetic - nice, but in standard ? - using computation >effective representation as in this "demand" should be put as *must* >have ? in standard python ? - decimal with it's speed is sufficient - if >U need more speed use more spohisticated data struct

Re: [Python-Dev] C Decimal - is there any interest?

2007-10-16 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Mark Dickinson wrote: >On 10/16/07, Fredrik Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>A more radical proposal would be to change Python's long type to use a >>radix-10**n representation (Python 3000 or beyond?). >> >> > >Mightn't this produce significant (constant factor) slowdowns for long

Re: [Python-Dev] C Decimal - is there any interest?

2007-10-16 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Mark Dickinson wrote: >I'm almost sure that adding 4 digit numbers together is not what >Decimal was intended to be used for, but it still seems unreasonable >that it takes almost 5 seconds to do such an addition. The reason for >the quadratic behaviour is that almost all the arithmetic routi

Re: [Python-Dev] C Decimal - is there any interest?

2007-10-16 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Mark Dickinson wrote: >On 10/15/07, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>[...] I >>would like to know if there is still interest in C version of Decimal. >>If so - should I write PEP, or just code and 'we'll see later'? >>

Re: [Python-Dev] C Decimal - is there any interest?

2007-10-15 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Mateusz Rukowicz wrote: >Hi! > >I've been working on C decimal project during gSoC 2006. After year >of idling (I had extremely busy first year on University, but well, most >of us are extremely busy) I decided, that I will handle further >developing (there is still

[Python-Dev] C Decimal - is there any interest?

2007-10-15 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
m also aware of simplicity of this benchmark. (This python have been of course compiled with -O3). Best regards, Mateusz Rukowicz. ___ 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

[Python-Dev] C Decimal - is there any interest?

2007-10-15 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
m also aware of simplicity of this benchmark. (This python have been of course compiled with -O3). Best regards, Mateusz Rukowicz. ___ 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

[Python-Dev] C decimal project.

2007-02-23 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
some copying) and add C api, so C decimal would eventually leave sandbox. My question is - am I permitted to just continue work on svn? Or there is something I have to do before that? Any sugestions etc. would be appreciated. Thanks in advance and best regards, Mateusz Ruk

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-22 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
gs about that would: 1.Compatibility with old decimal 1.easy to maintain and expand code 1.don't broke python portability, nor adding new depedencies 2.Efficiency (if and only if 1. isn't broke) I am quite confident I can achieve this points. But everything is open for dis

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Guido van Rossum wrote: >(Aside: you probably mean physicist, someone who practices physics. A >physician is a doctor; don't ask me why. :-) > > > ;) I'll remember ;) >>interpreted languages are particularly good for physics simulations, in >>which small error would grow so much, that results a

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Alex Martelli wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Aahz wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006, Mateusz Rukowicz wrote: >> >>> >>> Next thing I would add is multi precision floating point type to >>> the core and fraction type, which in some cases hig

Re: [Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
Guido van Rossum wrote: >On 4/21/06, Mateusz Rukowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>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 u

[Python-Dev] Google Summer of Code proposal: improvement of long int and adding new types/modules.

2006-04-21 Thread Mateusz Rukowicz
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. Best regards, Mateusz Ruk