On 9/7/05, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/6/05, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A better plan would be to build something akin to > > > Pyrex into the scheme of things, so that all the > > > refcount/GC issues are taken care of automatically. > > > > That sounds exciting. I have to admit that despite hearing many > > enthusiastic reviews, I've never used it myself -- in fact I've > > written very little C code in the last few years, and zero new > > extension modules. (Lots of Java, but that's another story. :-) > > Here's a perspective "from the trenches" as it were. > > Encouraging its use for the writing of new extension modules: ick, -1. > Writing pretty yet high performing Pyrex is an art that I'm not sure > anyone can master.
I'd just like to put in that it seems like the suggestions to use Pyrex were aimed at C-library wrapping extensions, not necessarily ones that were written in C for performance (I gather that there are very few of those, comparatively). So the encouragement to use Pyrex for new extension modules still seems perfect, to me; its use should definitely be encouraged when one needs to wrap some third-party library, and I'd bet that that's the common case. -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | -- http://radix.twistedmatrix.com | Release Manager, Twisted Project \\\V/// | -- http://twistedmatrix.com |o O| | w----v----w-+ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
