[Python-Dev] C++ for CPython 3? (Re: str.count is slow) (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Mar 1 00:26:17 CET 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > > > My personal goal in life right now is to stay as > > > far away from C++ as I can get. > > > > so what C compiler are you using ? > > Gcc, mostly. I don't mind if it's capable of > compiling C++, as long as I can choose not to > write any.

That's getting harder and harder though. Recent versions of GCC appear to be implementing C98 by default -- at least I didn't get complaints about declarations placed after non-declarations in the same block from any of the buildbot hosts...

should we perhaps switch to (careful use of) C++ in 3.0 ?



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