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Author rhettinger
Recipients Amaury.Forgeot.d'Arc, amaury.forgeotdarc, brian.curtin, casevh, ced, eric.smith, eric.snow, jjconti, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, skrah, vstinner
Date 2012-03-05.23:47:19
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Message-id <1330991240.06.0.799237102525.issue7652@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Victor, yes, the decimal module needs a C implementation.  Without it, the pure Python code is abysmally slow.  Other MP implementations don't fill the need or come close to implementing the decimal arithmetic spec.
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2012-03-05 23:47:20rhettingersetrecipients: + rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner, casevh, eric.smith, jjconti, ced, brian.curtin, skrah, Amaury.Forgeot.d'Arc, eric.snow
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