On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:12 PM, <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > So I disagree that we could easily reach the point where it's "close to >> the >> speed of what we have." And if we were to attempt this, it would be a >> multiple months undertaking. I would rather see that time spent on >> improving pickle than on yet another reimplementation. >> > > Of course, this being free software, anybody can spend time on whatever > they > please, and this should not make anybody feel sad. You just don't get > merits > if you work on stuff that nobody cares about.
Yes, of course. I don't want to discourage anyone to investigate this option—in fact, I would very much like to see myself proven wrong. But, if I understood Stefan correctly, he is proposing to have a GSoC student to do the work, to which I would feel uneasy about since we have no idea how valuable this would be as a contribution. -- Alexandre
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