[Python-Dev] C API changes

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:22:30 -0800
Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
> 
> My proposed marketing pitch is: "rewrite your existing code to be 
> forward-compatible today and faster in the future without more work, or 
> be prepared to rewrite/update your source code for each CPython release 
> to remain compatible with the low level API". The promise of "faster in 
> the future" needs to be justified (and I think there's plenty of 
> precedent in PyPy, Larry's Gilectomy and the various JavaScript VMs to 
> assume that we can do it).

I think that should be qualified.  Technically it's certainly possible
to have a faster CPython with different internals.  Socially and
organisationally I'm not sure we're equipped to achieve it.

Regards

Antoine.