Nicola Musatti wrote: > The real sad thing is that nobody is likely to convince Guido to turn > CPython into C++Python ;-)
How difficult would that be? Could it be done in stages? I would be willing to spend some time on that kind of project. Since I know almost nothing about Python internals, though, I'd appreciate it if a C++-fluent Python expert could give an estimate in person-months. Also, what would be the general break-down? Maybe: (1) Prepare a build environment appropriate for Python, supporting code in both C and C++. Include unit-test targets, and a mechanism for module developers to add unit tests to those targets. (2) Get all the headers C++-clean. (3) Begin translating one module at a time. Different people could work on different modules, and add their test-cases to the global target. One potential problem would be linkage. Would Python-internal C++ modules still have to provide C-linkable APIs, so that they could be invoked from other parts of Python? A breakdown of module dependencies would help address this issue, so that it would be clear which parts of the code-base would be directly affected by translating a given module to C++. At the external API level, would it still be important to support C-style linkage, even if the implementation code isn't written in C? I don't know whether it's realistic for people embedding Python in non-C++ applications to have to work directly with C++ APIs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
