[Python-Dev] Second milestone of FAT Python (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 17:23:34 EST 2015

2015-11-04 21:14 GMT+01:00 Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de>:

Do you think there will be any change of merging this back into CPython?

If I understood correctly the first feedback on python-ideas, there were mostly positive, so I believe that it would be possible to merge the FAT mode into CPython. The changes required to implement the FAT mode are restricted to a few files and are small. But I would prefer to keep the whole "FAT mode" optional, to keep exactly the same performances than before for the "standard" mode.

I will write a PEP for that, but first I have to ensure that FAT Python works as expected (it's really faster), and that it's generic enough to be used by projects like Numba, Cython, pythran, etc. (but not JIT-based interpreters like PyPy or pyston which already have their own efficient guards.)

Victor

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