Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > If the encryption is so horrible why is there any support (with bad > performance) at all in Python? > It would be better to remove it altogether.
We don't remove it as it would break existing programs which rely on this feature. However adding a bunch of C code to improve performance of such a questionable feature is controversial. I wouldn't be against the acceleration myself, however I am not interested in reviewing or accepting it, sorry. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10030> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com