[Python-Dev] Should standard library modules optimize for CPython?

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le 01/06/2014 10:11, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
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> My feeling is that the CPython standard library should be written for
> CPython, that is, it should stick to the current naive implementation of
> median, and if PyPy wants to speed the function up, they can provide
> their own version of the module. I should *not* complicate the
> implementation by trying to detect which Python the code is running
> under and changing algorithms accordingly. However, I should put a
> comment in the module pointing at the tracker issue. Does this sound
> right to others?

It sounds ok to me.

Regards

Antoine.