30 Jun
2020
30 Jun
'20
3:51 p.m.
On 2020-06-30 02:46, Victor Stinner wrote:
You missed the point of the PEP: "It becomes possible to experiment with more advanced optimizations in CPython than just micro-optimizations, like tagged pointers."
I don't think experiments are a good motivation.
When the C API is broken, everyone that uses it pays the price -- they have to update their code. They pay the price even if the experiment fails, or if it's never started in the first place.
Can we treat the C API not as a place for experiments, but as a stable foundation to build on?
For example, could we only deprecate the bad parts, but not remove them until the experiments actually show that they are preventing a beneficial change?