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

[Fredrik Lundh]

martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

> I'm not saying Python 3 should be written in C++, I'm only saying
> that doing so would have not just disadvantages.

someone also pointed out in private mail (I think; it doesn't seem to
have made it to this list) that CPython's extensive use of "inheritance
by aggregation" is invalid C.

switching to C++ would be one way to address that, of course.

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