[Python-3000] _heapq.c, etc. (was Re: Heaptypes)

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On 7/20/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I definitely *don't* want to continue the old habit of having a slow
> and a fast module with different names; the experience with especially
> cPickle and cStringIO is that everyone believes their code is
> performance critical and hence uses the C version if it exists,
> thereby repeating the same idiom over and over.

Actually, I am been surprised myself that the C version of StringIO
isn't always faster than the Python one. I have a testcase where using
StringIO, instead of cStringIO, is ~20% faster.

-- Alexandre