[pypy-dev] Performance, json and standard library

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi Maciej,
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So while I agree that ideally, JIT could handle whatever it has, but
>> maybe json is an example good enough to warrant changes.
>
> Yes, I agree in theory.  (Didn't look in detail at the proposed
> patches.)  Alternatively, couldn't the patches be formulated as a new
> file lib_pypy/_json.py?  The stdlib's json module imports _json if
> available, and of course it doesn't have to be written in RPython, it
> can just be a tweaked version of the Python library.
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
>

I agree that's a neat escape from "we don't modify standard library" policy :)

Cheers,
fijal