[Python-Dev] C version of functools.lru_cache

[Peter Brady]

Looks like it's already in the works!  Nevermind


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
wrote:

> 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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