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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 2 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst index 3eeb954..766d3f3 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst @@ -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 | +---------+-------------+--------------+-------------+ @@ -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) |