Python Language Summit: Python Without the GIL
If you peruse the archives of language-summit blogs, you’ll find that one theme comes up again and again : the dream of Python without the... (more…)
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Python’s float type is a natural first step to represent monetary amounts in the code. Almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 “double precision”.
Doubles contain 53 bits of precision. When the machine is trying to represent the fractional part… Read more