[Python-Dev] Experiment an opt-in new C API for Python? (leave current API unchanged)

[André Malo]

On Dienstag, 13. November 2018 21:59:14 CET Victor Stinner wrote:
> Le mar. 13 nov. 2018 à 20:32, André Malo <nd at perlig.de> a écrit :
> > As long as they are recompiled. However, they will lose a lot of
> > performance. Both these points have been mentioned somewhere, I'm
> > certain, but it cannot be stressed enough, IMHO.
> 
> Somewhere is here:
> https://pythoncapi.readthedocs.io/performance.html

> > I'm wondering, how you suggest to measure "major". I believe, every C
> > extension, which is public and running in production somewhere, is major
> > enough.
> 
> My plan is to select something like the top five most popular C
> extensions based on PyPI download statistics. I cannot test
> everything, I have to put practical limits.

You shouldn't. Chances are, that you don't even know them enough to do that. 
A scalable approach would be to talk to the projects and let them do it 
instead. No?

Cheers,
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