[Python-3000] Modules with Dual Python/C Implementations (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Dec 12 00:50:08 CET 2006

Brett Cannon wrote:

It has been suggested we actually ditch the C version since we only want to maintain one version and the Python version can be used by alternative Python implementations.

Then we would lose all the speed advantages that were presumably thought important when the C version was created in the first place.

I say stop worrying and ditch the Python version. An alternative Python implementation is going to have to provide implementations of all the existing C-only modules. A few more isn't going to kill it.

-- Greg

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