Hello, > >should we perhaps switch to (careful use of) C++ in 3.0 ? > I can't see many advantages in moving to C++, but a lot of disadvantages: > > - Size increase, especially when we start using templates > - Performance decrease > - Problems with name mangling together with dynamic loading and cross > module API's > - Everything has to be build with the same compiler, binaries created > with different compilers can't interoperate > - Possibly all extensions modules have to be (re)written in C++ > - Moving to C++ will change Python's well known API substantially
Same opinion. C++ is evil, please don't use it. You get a lot of new problems and nearly not benefit. Better go to jython or consider the way of pypy. -- bye by Wolfgang _______________________________________________ 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
