nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom greg ewing wrote thought decimal going replaced c implementation soon anyway worth going much trouble believe found trouble worth optimisations focused various ways making python implementation efficient one ways store mantissa string order gain benefit fast strint intstr conversions 30 version longer benefit shows looks like may necessary switch custom object mantissa storage order get fast conversions back cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 100756 1000 pythondev decimalunicode