"Write it in C if you need speed" is a mainstream, orthodox view in the Python community. Pypy is largely the result of hard work from a small number of people (same goes for Jython and IronPython).
Writing C extensions is a great optimization, but it is often a pain to have that platform specific code ported to another platforma (Windows/Linux/x86/x64..)
However, speeding up Python itself might lessen the need for 'monolithic' and platform specific extensions... Which is a very good thing.
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"Write it in C if you need speed" is a mainstream, orthodox view in the Python community. Pypy is largely the result of hard work from a small number of people (same goes for Jython and IronPython).
Writing C extensions is a great optimization, but it is often a pain to have that platform specific code ported to another platforma (Windows/Linux/x86/x64..) However, speeding up Python itself might lessen the need for 'monolithic' and platform specific extensions... Which is a very good thing.