13 Jun
2019
13 Jun
'19
11:16 a.m.
On 2019-06-13 17:11, Steve Dower wrote:
The cost of that convenience is that we can never optimise internals because they are now public API.
I think that the opposite is true actually: the reason that people access internals is because there is no public API doing what they want. Having more public API should *reduce* the need for accessing internals.
For example, _PyObject_GetMethod is not public API but it's useful functionality. So Cython is forced to reinvent _PyObject_GetMethod (i.e. copy verbatim that function from the CPython sources), which requires accessing internals.