[Python-Dev] Joys of Optimization (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Fri Mar 19 15:16:34 EST 2004

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.

+1

Jeremy

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