Hi, On 31 July 2018 at 13:55, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > It's just that I disagree that removing the C API will make CPython 2x > faster. > > Actually, important modern optimizations for dynamic languages (such as > inlining, type specialization, inline caches, object unboxing) don't > seem to depend on the C API at all.
These are optimizations typically talked about in papers about dynamic languages in general. In my opinion, in the specific case of CPython, they are all secondary to the following: (1) JIT, (2) GC, (3) object model, (4) multithreading. Currently, the C API only allows Psyco-style JITting (much slower than PyPy). All three other points might not be possible at all without a seriously modified C API. Why? I have no proof, but only circumstantial evidence. Each of (2), (3), (4) has been done in at least one other implementation: PyPy, Jython and IronPython. Each of these implementation has also got its share of troubles with emulating the CPython C API. You can continue to think that the C API has got nothing to do with it. I tend to think the opposite. The continued absence of major performance improvements for either CPython itself or for any alternative Python implementation that *does* support the C API natively is probably proof enough---I think that enough time has passed, by now, to make this argument. A bientôt, Armin. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com