text_combined: mark dickinson vqpxmqtcgmailcom thu mar 27 2008 446 georg brandl wrote nick said dropin replacement c isnt feasible probably users decimal wont really care slightly adapt code get speed increase instead soc student working decimalc past shouldnt totally dead years soc worry rewriting decimal c entirety would make significantly harder maintain ibm decimal specification hasnt stabilised yet theres another update expected time ieee 754r finally approved probably still significant changes made decimal future know would contributed lot less decimal written c simply would taken much time understand modify code mark wed 06 aug 2008 214119 0400 pythondev decimalunicode