[Python-Dev] Joys of Optimization (original) (raw)
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Fri Mar 19 15:12:52 EST 2004
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
3) I had re-coded several modules in C with the goal of making pure python more viable for certain high performance apps (for instance, implementing heapq and bisect in C made them a more viable as components of superfast code written in pure python). If the threading module were re-coded in C, then it would benefit a broad class of multi-threaded applications making it more likely that Python becomes the language of choice for those apps.
The last time you brought this up, there was considerable disagreement
about how appropriate this would be in general. I am not at all sure,
for example, that coding threading in C would bring enough
improvement to justify the loss of readability.
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