On Thu, 13 May 2021 at 09:23, Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: > > Hi Terry, > > On 13/05/2021 5:32 am, Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 5/12/2021 1:40 PM, Mark Shannon wrote: > > > >> This is an informational PEP about a key part of our plan to improve > >> CPython performance for 3.11 and beyond. > > > >> As always, comments and suggestions are welcome. > > > > The claim that starts the Motivation section, "Python is widely > > acknowledged as slow.", has multiple problems. While some people > > believe, or at least claim to believe "Python is slow", other know that > > as stated, the latter is false. Languages do not have a speed, only > > implementations running code for particular applications have a speed, > > or a speed relative to equivalent code in another language with a > > different runtime. > > I broadly agree, but CPython is largely synonymous with Python and > CPython is slower than it could be. > > The phrase was not meant to upset anyone. > How would you rephrase it, bearing in mind that needs to be short?
How about simply "The CPython interpreter, while sufficiently fast for much use, could be faster"? Along with the following sentence, this seems to me to state the situation fairly but in a way that motivates this proposal. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/UQFXWM64JORKYJVAGIOV6YJ5OWDTTQRA/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
