Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > But maybe this is not so important, as these are programming errors > anyway.
Agreed :) > One thing I'm still wondering : why couldn't we obtain these C > extension by cythonizing _pyio ? Are there features that cython lacks, > or optimization considerations I'm not aware of ? Cython-generated > extensions seem soooo easier to maintain... Several reasons: - we don't want to depend on an external tool such as cython; the interpreter and its most critical modules just need a C compiler and a reasonably standard C library - the language cython implements is not Python: it is both a superset and (more annoyingly) a subset of Python - cython will not allow us, I think, to do as many optimizations as we do in the C version of the io library; the algorithms used are not the same as in the Python version, since raw C allows some much more efficient constructs (especially for handling memory buffers) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7865> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
