Commit 0c0914ed authored by Stefan Krah's avatar Stefan Krah

_decimal is now 100x faster than the Python version in the pi benchmark.

parent dd159ce6
......@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ The new C version of the decimal module integrates the high speed libmpdec
library for arbitrary precision correctly-rounded decimal floating point
arithmetic. libmpdec conforms to IBM's General Decimal Arithmetic Specification.
Performance gains range from 10x for database applications to 80x for
Performance gains range from 10x for database applications to 100x for
numerically intensive applications. These numbers are expected gains
for standard precisions used in decimal floating point arithmetic. Since
the precision is user configurable, the exact figures may vary. For example,
......@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ at http://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/quickstart.html.
+---------+-------------+--------------+-------------+
| | decimal.py | _decimal | speedup |
+=========+=============+==============+=============+
| pi | 42.75s | 0.58s | 74x |
| pi | 38.89s | 0.38s | 100x |
+---------+-------------+--------------+-------------+
| telco | 172.19s | 5.68s | 30x |
+---------+-------------+--------------+-------------+
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......@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Library
- Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed
up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
between 12x and 80x, depending on the application.
between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.
- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
(directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
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