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authorStefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org>2012-03-21 17:25:23 (GMT)
committerStefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org>2012-03-21 17:25:23 (GMT)
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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.
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Library
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+- 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.
+
- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
(directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)