[pypy-dev] Extended goals

[Christian Tismer]

Bob Ippolito wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 09:20 America/New_York, Christian Tismer 
> wrote:

...

>> Zope would not only become much faster, but
>> could also get rid of *all its C extensions*
>> (which are not too many, btw).
> 
> 
> Does Zope really need any C extensions to do what it needs to do (not 
> considering performance) if they were allowed to use new style classes? 
>  I was under the impression that the C extension(s) in Zope were 
> developed to get around some of the shortfalls of the old class system, 
> and was part of the reason for type/class unification?

Well, I think they should be able to trash ExtensionClass,
but they have a bit more:

D:\pypy\trunk\doc\funding>dir D:\Zope-2.7.0-b2\lib\python\*.pyd
  Datenträger in Laufwerk D: ist Daten
  Datenträgernummer: 8838-4458

  Verzeichnis von D:\Zope-2.7.0-b2\lib\python

26.08.2003  14:36               28,672 Acquisition.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               28,672 BTree.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               20,480 ComputedAttribute.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               61,440 ExtensionClass.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               28,672 IIBTree.pyd
26.08.2003  14:37               20,480 initgroups.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               20,480 intSet.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               28,672 IOBTree.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               20,480 MethodObject.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               20,480 Missing.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               20,480 MultiMapping.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               28,672 OIBTree.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               20,480 Record.pyd
26.08.2003  14:36               20,480 ThreadLock.pyd
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ciao - chris
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