On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:22:30 -0800 Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> wrote: > > My proposed marketing pitch is: "rewrite your existing code to be > forward-compatible today and faster in the future without more work, or > be prepared to rewrite/update your source code for each CPython release > to remain compatible with the low level API". The promise of "faster in > the future" needs to be justified (and I think there's plenty of > precedent in PyPy, Larry's Gilectomy and the various JavaScript VMs to > assume that we can do it).
I think that should be qualified. Technically it's certainly possible to have a faster CPython with different internals. Socially and organisationally I'm not sure we're equipped to achieve 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
