[Python-Dev] C++ for CPython 3? (Re: str.count is slow)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> >
> > > > My personal goal in life right now is to stay as
> > > > far away from C++ as I can get.
> > >
> > > so what C compiler are you using ?
> >
> > Gcc, mostly. I don't mind if it's capable of
> > compiling C++, as long as I can choose not to
> > write any.
>
> That's getting harder and harder though. Recent versions of GCC appear
> to be implementing C98 by default -- at least I didn't get complaints
> about declarations placed after non-declarations in the same block
> from any of the buildbot hosts...

should we perhaps switch to (careful use of) C++ in 3.0 ?

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