[Python-Dev] FAT Python (lack of) performance

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jan 25, 2016, at 07:16 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

>Barry also wrote: "Did you address my suggestion on python-ideas to
>make the new C API optionally compiled in?"
>
>Well, it is an option, but I would prefer to have the API for AST
>optimizer directly built in Python.

In my plan, it would be, but it would have to be enabled with a configure
switch, and provisionally protected by an #ifdef.

>And I agree to wait until fatoptimizer is proven to be faster than the
>regular CPython before taking a decision of my 3 PEPs (509, 510, 511).

+1 - and just to be clear, I hope you succeed beyond your wildest
imagination. :)

Cheers,
-Barry