[Python-Dev] str.count is slow

[James Y Knight]

On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On 2/28/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>>
>>>> My personal goal in life right now is to stay as
>>>> far away from C++ as I can get.
>>>
>>> so what C compiler are you using ?
>>
>> Gcc, mostly. I don't mind if it's capable of
>> compiling C++, as long as I can choose not to
>> write any.
>
> That's getting harder and harder though. Recent versions of GCC appear
> to be implementing C98 by default -- at least I didn't get complaints
> about declarations placed after non-declarations in the same block
> from any of the buildbot hosts...

I don't know whether you meant "C++98" or "C99" in the above, but the  
default is (mostly) C99, now. If you like, you can still tell it to  
compile in C89 mode, with --std=c89.

C99 contains some of the superficial C++ syntax changes such as //  
comments and declarations after non-declarations which have long been  
implemented as non-standard extensions, anyhow, but it's still  
nothing like C++.

As for the question of whether to switch to C++ in 3.0, I'd say  
probably not, as it's much harder to interface with C++ from other  
languages than to C.

James