On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:08:58 -0000 "Denis Kotov" <redrad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Okay lets try to discuss one by one: > 1) Readability - less code, most code is hidden by abstraction without losing > performance > In CPython code lots of stuff like Py_INCREF, Py_DECREF .. it could be fixed > with C++ std::shared_ptr<> (RustPython use analog Arc<>)
std::shared_ptr<> would be a bad replacement for CPython's reference counting for two reasons: 1) the reference count is maintained in a separate memory block (unless you were careful enough to use std::make_shared() for allocation) 2) the reference count is atomic, and this has been proven to slow down CPython by 10-20%. That does not mean that CPython couldn't benefit from C++-based abstractions, but they would have to be implemented (or taken from another project such as pybind11). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/YEXWX6NT5W533PFIJVXAKHQWJCY43BDZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
