Hi Brian bytearray should be optimized for cases where you e.g. write() it to file or use read_into() in a way that does not make any copies. Same if you say convert it from ffi.buffer etc. That's probably what's missing from making it fast
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Brian Guo <bg...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Brian Guo and I am currently an undergraduate at Cornell > University. I am very interested in working with PyPy as part of Google's > Summer of Code. In particular, I am interested in working on the bytearray > project. I noticed that the current status of the ByteArray project is > unknown, but that there may be updates on the mailing list. I am wondering > if there is any information I may be able to read on this project, or > possibly an overview of the project itself and the proposed changes that > would make byteArray faster (if any have been proposed yet). I am very > grateful to anyone who is able to point me in the right direction in regards > to this project. > > Thank you all for your time, > > -Brian Guo > > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev