Robert Bradshaw, 01.12.2009 08:41: > On Nov 30, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> Coercion from bytes to plain char* is pretty fast, and could be even >> faster if it's typed (as we could use a None check and a macro in that >> case). > > (As an asside, ironically, a type check is often just as fast as a > None check, as I've noticed elsewhere statically typing things...)
Note that this doesn't apply here, as we currently use a function call to PyBytes_AsString(). Doing a None check and a macro call to PyBytes_AS_STRING() is likely a lot faster than that. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
