[Python-Dev] Idea for a fast calling convention (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Mar 1 07:15:46 EST 2004

Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> writes:

On Mar 1, 2004, at 5:52 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:

Well, yes. C sucks seriously for things like this, though. It's frankly embarassing that every time, say, ''.split() is called, some silly string is being parsed. Unclear what to do about this (excpet PyPy, I guess). Surely there's other reasonable options. For example, we could start using something like Pyrex that could be modified to generate whatever gnarly C code needs to happen for optimal runtime performance with minimal input ugliness :)

Hmm, yes, I hadn't thought of pyrex.

It also hadn't occured to me that pyrex might be desirable because the result might be more efficient, but I guess that's not so surprising.

Cheers, mwh

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