[Python-Dev] Should standard library modules optimize for CPython?

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Jun 1, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> Le 01/06/2014 10:11, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>> 
>> My feeling is that the CPython standard library should be written for
>> CPython, that is, it should stick to the current naive implementation of
>> median, and if PyPy wants to speed the function up, they can provide
>> their own version of the module. I should *not* complicate the
>> implementation by trying to detect which Python the code is running
>> under and changing algorithms accordingly. However, I should put a
>> comment in the module pointing at the tracker issue. Does this sound
>> right to others?
> 
> It sounds ok to me.

That makes sense.


Raymond
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