[Python-Dev] PEP 471 (scandir): Poll to choose the implementation (full C or C+Python)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 11:19:00 CET 2015


On 13 February 2015 at 10:07, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> => IMO the best option is to take the C implementation. What do you think?

FWIW (as I'm not a core dev) I agree. The Windows speedup is huge, and
well worth adding the code. I'm assuming that the majority of the C
code is cross-platform, so we're not adding a big chunk of code
needing *both* Windows and C skills to maintain (any dev with C skills
could handle it).

Paul


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