Hi Victor,
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:47:51 +0200 Victor Stinner <vstin...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I just sent an email to the capi-sig mailing list. Since this mailing > list was idle for months, I copy my email here to get a wider > audience. But if possible, I would prefer that you join me on capi-sig > to reply ;-) > > -- > > Hi, > > Last year, I gave a talk at the Language Summit (during Pycon) to > explain that CPython should become 2x faster to remain competitive. > IMHO all attempts to optimize Python (CPython forks) have failed > because they have been blocked by the C API which implies strict > constraints. Well, that's your opinion, but did you prove it? Which CPython forks did you examine that failed because of the C API? The one area I know of where the C API is a strong barrier to improvement is removing the GIL, and I'd rather let Larry speak about it. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
