[Python-Dev] Second milestone of FAT Python

[Victor Stinner]

2015-11-04 21:14 GMT+01:00 Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de>:
> Do you think there will be any change of merging this back into CPython?

If I understood correctly the first feedback on python-ideas, there
were mostly positive, so I believe that it would be possible to merge
the FAT mode into CPython. The changes required to implement the FAT
mode are restricted to a few files and are small. But I would prefer
to keep the whole "FAT mode" optional, to keep exactly the same
performances than before for the "standard" mode.

I will write a PEP for that, but first I have to ensure that FAT
Python works as expected (it's really faster), and that it's generic
enough to be used by projects like Numba, Cython, pythran, etc. (but
not JIT-based interpreters like PyPy or pyston which already have
their own efficient guards.)

Victor