On 30 April 2018 at 23:38, Mark Shannon <m...@hotpy.org> wrote: > > On 12/04/18 17:12, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > >> Dear Python developers, >> >> I would like to request a review of PEP 575, which is about changing the >> classes used for built-in functions and Python functions and methods. The >> text of the PEP can be found at >> > > > The motivation of PEP 575 is to allow introspection of built-in functions > and to allow functions implemented in Python to be re-implemented in C. > > These are excellent goals. >
That summary misses the 3rd goal, which is the one that answers your other questions: to allow 3rd party extension modules access to the hot paths in CPython that are currently restricted to true built-in and Python native functions (without making those hot paths measurably slower). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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