On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Michael Abshoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> William Stein wrote:
>>> I think it would
>>> possibly be very good to port this signal stuff into Cython itself (why 
>>> not?).
>>
>> Yes, but... :)
>>
>> It would have to be explicit to avoid unnecessary overhead in time-critical
>> code (e.g. loops may or may not be a good candidate for signal checking,
>> depending on how tight they are), and it wouldn't necessarily work in calls
>> to external libraries.
>
> I guess William's point was that the signal semantic should be available
> in Cython, not that it should be automatically be used by some heuristic.
>

Yes, exactly.  And I definitely agree that it should be very explicit.

William
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