[Python-ideas] PEP 432: Simplifying the CPython startup sequence

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:55:52 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was planning to move most of those settings into the config dict. Both
> the core config struct and the config dict would then be stored in new
> slots in the interpreter struct.
> 
> My preference is to push more settings into the config dictionary, since
> those can use the C API and frozen bytecode to do their calculations.

But dicts are also more annoying to use in C than plain structs.

Regards

Antoine.