[Python-Dev] C version of functools.lru_cache

[Benjamin Peterson]

You might look at https://bugs.python.org/issue14373

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014, at 08:38, Peter Brady wrote:
> Hello python devs,
> 
> I was recently in need of some faster caching and thought this would be a
> good opportunity to familiarize myself with the Python/C api so I wrote a
> C
> extension for the lru_cache in functools.  The source is at
> https://github.com/pbrady/fastcache.git and I've posted it as a package
> on
> PyPI (fastcache).  There are some simple benchmarks on the github page
> showing about 9x speedup.  I would like to submit this for incorporation
> into the standard library.  Is there any interest in this? I suspect it
> probably requires some changes/cleanup especially since I haven't
> addressed
> thread-safety at all.
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter.
> 
> P.S. This was the motivation for the faster caching
> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/7464.
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