On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > What you're proposing doesn't address the question of who is going to > > do the ongoing maintenance. > > I agree, my suggestion is orthogonal to the question of who maintains stdlib > json.
No, that's not what I'm talking about. The json module *is* maintained (take a look at "hg log"), even though it may be less active than simplejson (but simplejson doesn't receive many changes either). I am talking about maintenance of the "shared codebase" you are talking about. Mandating a single codebase between two different languages (Python 2 and Python 3) and two different libraries (json and simplejson) comes at a high maintenance cost, and it's not obvious in your proposal who will bear that cost in the long run (you?). It is not a one-time cost, but an ongoing one. > Bob has said he isn't interested in Python 3, but he has said that "if > someone contributes the code to make simplejson work in Python 3 I'm willing > to apply the patches run the tests against any future changes." I can't speak for Bob, but this assumes the patches are not invasive and don't degrade performance. It's not obvious that will be the case. > Bob made a comment in passing that simplejson (Python) is about as fast as > stdlib json (C extension), on 2.x. I think Bob tested with an outdated version of the stdlib json module (2.6 or 2.7, perhaps). In my latest measurements, the 3.2 json C module is as fast as the C simplejson module, the only difference being in parsing of numbers, which is addressed in http://bugs.python.org/issue11856 > That may or may not prove to be the case on > 3.x, but at least it is now possible to run simplejson on 3.x (Python only, so > far) to make a comparison. Feel free to share your numbers. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
