On Jan 23, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Carl Witty wrote:

>
> On Jan 23, 2:18 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> One thought I had was that support for a wide variety of types could
>> be done by manipulating function pointers. This would make it easy to
>> give support for a wide variety of types without a lot of specialized
>> work.
>
> Function pointers are far too slow; I'm going for speed.

On the other hand they're much faster than manipulating a bunch of  
wrapped PyObject*.

> Don't worry; a lot of the work in the new version is a generic type
> support framework that indeed (hopefully) makes it easy to add more
> types without too much work.

That's good to hear.

- Robert


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