On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >> No offense taken. The V8 experience makes me feel much more optimistic >> that they might actually pull this off. (I'm still skeptical about >> support for extension modules, withougt which CPython is pretty lame.) > > The need to modify all extension modules is the usual non-starter I see > mentioned when this topic comes up. The OP really needs to think about that > issue.
It's a non-starter for immediate world-domination. But if they get the core to be significantly faster I expect there will be motivation to port extensions. There's also the PyPy effort to replace extension modules with ctypes-based wrappers. I could also imagine that extensions could be run in a sandbox that *does* use the equivalent of the GIL. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
