[Python-Dev] Let's change to C API!

[Jeroen Demeyer]

My first impression is that making things faster and hiding 
implementation details in the ABI are contrary goals. I agree with 
hiding implementation details in the API but not in the ABI.

For example, you mention that you want to make Py_INCREF() a function 
call instead of a macro. But since Py_INCREF is very common, I would 
guess that this would make performance worse (not by much maybe but 
surely measurable).


Jeroen.