[issue10667] collections.Counter object in C

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

I would like this API to "sit and cook" for a good while.  There are many possible ways to add more methods and most be end-up being YAGNI. 
Also, my experience with dict.fromkeys() is that a fair number of people get confused by alternative constructors.  So, at this point I have zero interest in adding from_items().

Am taking the C optimizations under advisement.  In the meantime, there is no need to keep submitting patch variations.  The question is less how-to-do-it and more a question of whether-to-do-it.  We try not to add an alternate C paths unless a feature is an important building block.  There is an on-going maintenance cost and a risk of slightly different behaviors (at a minimum, the tracebacks look different and the code can't be traced through pdb).  That being said, there is a nice speed-up to be had, so I'll give that some weight.

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priority: normal -> low
resolution:  -> later

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