Fredrik Lundh schrieb: >should we perhaps switch to (careful use of) C++ in 3.0 ? > > > I can't see many advantages in moving to C++, but a lot of disadvantages:
- Size increase, especially when we start using templates - Performance decrease - Problems with name mangling together with dynamic loading and cross module API's - Everything has to be build with the same compiler, binaries created with different compilers can't interoperate - Possibly all extensions modules have to be (re)written in C++ - Moving to C++ will change Python's well known API substantially --- IMHO, if a Python major version change implies to forget everything that has been established over the years, ignoring backward compaibility, breaking nearly every Python script, than we should definitely find another name for it, or I will stay with Python 2 for the rest of my life. --- Ulli _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
