Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal news: speedup and stabilization

2007-12-02 Thread Nick Coghlan
Facundo Batista wrote: > 2007/11/24, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Did you change the Decimal repr to use the same format for the mantissa? > > I don't understand the question. The output of repr() does not show > this internals... Yeah, um... can we just forget I asked that question? (

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal news: speedup and stabilization

2007-11-30 Thread Facundo Batista
2007/11/24, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Did you change the Decimal repr to use the same format for the mantissa? I don't understand the question. The output of repr() does not show this internals... > Could you also check the performance gain against the telco benchmark > which is in th

Re: [Python-Dev] Decimal news: speedup and stabilization

2007-11-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
Facundo Batista wrote: > Mark Dickinson found out that a lot of time was lost internally in > decimal.py when dealing with the Decimal mantissas. > > He changed the way that mantissa was stored, from a tuple of ints, to > a plain string (each character a digit). This achieved a speedup of > around