On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:38:43 +0100 Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivs...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 April 2018 at 12:01, Serhiy Storchaka > <storchaka-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > 25.04.18 13:15, Ivan Levkivskyi пише: > > > >> Hm, this is what I wanted to know. I think by rewriting EnumMeta in C we > >> can reduce the creation time of an Enum class > >> (almost) down to the creation time of a normal class, which may be a 4-5x > >> speed-up. What do you think? > >> > > > > It could be great. But I afraid this may add too much complexity in C > > code. Maybe try to implement a simple and fast Enum for using it in the > > stdlib and extend it with a richer interface in the enum module? > > > > > I think we can do something similar to ABCMeta, i.e. the metaclass itself > will stay defined in Python, but the "hottest" parts of its methods will be > replaced with helper functions written in C.
It's still a PITA to maintain, and it's not nice to Ethan (the main enum maintainer) if suddenly he has to act on C code when he wants to fix a bug or add a feature. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
