[Python-Dev] Joys of Optimization

[Jeremy Hylton]

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> >
> > 3) I had re-coded several modules in C with the goal of making pure
> > python more viable for certain high performance apps (for instance,
> > implementing heapq and bisect in C made them a more viable as components
> > of superfast code written in pure python).  If the threading module were
> > re-coded in C, then it would benefit a broad class of multi-threaded
> > applications making it more likely that Python becomes the language of
> > choice for those apps.
>
> The last time you brought this up, there was considerable disagreement
> about how appropriate this would be in general.  I am not at all sure,
> for example, that coding ``threading`` in C would bring enough
> improvement to justify the loss of readability.

+1

Jeremy