[Python-Dev] Split unicodeobject.c into subfiles?

[Victor Stinner]

2012/10/4 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>:
> 2012/10/4 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:
>> I only see one argument against such refactoring: it will be harder to
>> backport/forwardport bugfixes.
>
> I imagine it could also prevent inlining of hot paths.

It depends how the code is compiled. The stringlib is splitted in many
.h files, but it is able to use Py_LOCAL_INLINE.

If the code is grouped correctly, we may not loose any nice optimization at all.

FYI #include "test.c" is allowed in C ;-)

Victor