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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Mar 1 14:10:10 CET 2006


On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:26 PM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

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

I hope not. It would make life more difficult for embedded/extended
users like ourselves because it would force us to link our
applications as C++ programs. That introduces lots of headaches on
certain, shall we say, non-Windows platforms.

-Barry



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