[Python-Dev] PyDict_SetItem hook

[Antoine Pitrou]

Raymond Hettinger <python <at> rcn.com> writes:
> 
> It seems weird to me that Collin's group can be working
> so hard just to get a percent or two improvement in 
> specific cases for pickling while python-dev is readily 
> entertaining a patch that slows down the entire language.  

I think it's really more than a percent or two:
http://bugs.python.org/issue5670

Regards

Antoine.