Re: Fast conversion of numbers to numerator/denominator pairs

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Subject	Re: Fast conversion of numbers to numerator/denominator pairs
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On 25 August 2013 07:59, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> wrote:

> Breakdown of the above (for 19 digits):
>
> d.as_tuple() takes about 35% of the time.
>
> The multiply and add takes about 55% of the time.
>
> The exponentiation takes about 10% of the time.
>

Bah - sent before complete.

Since the multiply and add takes such a significant proportion of the time,
compiling the above with Cython should gain you a big win as well. Or find
some other way to turn that loop into native code.

Tim Delaney

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Fast conversion of numbers to numerator/denominator pairs Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-24 03:30 +0000
  Re: Fast conversion of numbers to numerator/denominator pairs Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-08-24 01:37 -0600
  Re: Fast conversion of numbers to numerator/denominator pairs Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-08-24 01:50 -0600
  Re: Fast conversion of numbers to numerator/denominator pairs Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-08-24 14:52 +0200
  Re: Fast conversion of numbers to numerator/denominator pairs Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2013-08-25 07:59 +1000
  Re: Fast conversion of numbers to numerator/denominator pairs Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2013-08-25 08:05 +1000

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