[Python-Dev] SF patch 864863: Bisect C implementation (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Dec 31 00:08:04 EST 2003 

Tim> Nobody can sanely accuse me of not caring about speed (see a decade
Tim> of speed-obsessed Python checkins for counterexamples <wink>), but
Tim> I cry a little each time a piece of the system gets recoded in C.
Tim> Keeping the original Python code around is a nice compromise
Tim> (pioneered, IIRC, by string.py, a loooong time ago).

It would be nice to keep the old Python implementations around for two reasons. First, there's the obvious educational value. Second, the PyPy folks will know where to find it when they need it. I think a Demo/Lib subdirectory (with appropriate README) would be a reasonable place to put such code out to pasture. It could be made available in source distributions but never installed.

Skip

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