From: John Lam <drjflam@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T10:07:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshaling Decimal types from .NET

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Thanks, Charlie I added the new marshaling code to RubyCLR this afternoon.
The only downside is that I have to convert the Decimal to a string first
before I can call BigDecimal's constructor, so this definitely impacts
performance when marshaling Decimals across the interop boundary.

-John
http://www.iunknown.com



I would say yes.  I expect you would have something like the following:
> C#          Ruby
> ----        ----
> float       Float
> double      Float
> decimal     BigDecimal
>
> I imagine when a C# programmer uses decimal, they choose it instead of
> double for a reason, making a conversion from decimal to Float (double)
> all the more likely to cause rounding error.
>
> -Charlie
>
>
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