Larry Hastings <larry <at> hastings.org> writes: > 2. How important is this speed difference? I suppose the answer, > as always, is "it depends". It depends on how often you call the > C library, and how long you spend in the routine when you get > there. Certainly a benchmark for library X is a worst-case > scenario; in real-world code, for most libraries, perhaps the > performance of the glue code isn't crucial.
Several of the early adopters of library X were the sqlalchemy people, who absolutely had real-world issues. > Of course this is all academic. I absolutely don't think we can > get rid of the C API, or even modify it in any meaningful way that > would let us abstract away implementation details like reference > counting. As I said in my original email, this magic wand simply > doesn't exist./arry Sorry for misquoting, indeed you said that. I was a little concerned that CFFI was mentioned by several people as a solution and wanted to highlight the drawbacks. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
