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Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 10:44:35 +1000
Subject: Re: Faster Recursive Fibonacci Numbers
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2011 16:54:06 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> If someone has time to kill (as if!), it'd be awesome to get a new
>> numeric type that uses bc's code; any other numeric type (int, long,
>> float) could autopromote to it, removing the dilemma of which to promote
>> out of long and float. Hmm... Python 4.0, 'bc' is the new default
>> integer and everything else is a performance optimization? Heh.
>
> The problem is, it isn't *just* a performance optimization, there is a
> semantic difference too. Consider:

Sure, but I'm thinking here that the "gold standard" is accuracy, with
other types allowing a programmer to forfeit some accuracy in favour
of performance. (Oh, and I should have said "new default numeric
type".)

And, of course, I was thinking in a stupid hypothetical way that's
extremely unlikely ever to happen.

Chris Angelico