Le mercredi 08 février 2012 à 11:01 -0500, Brett Cannon a écrit : > > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 17:42, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:24:21 -0500 > Brett Cannon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > IOW you want the sys.modules case fast, which I will never > be able to match > > compared to C code since that is pure execution with no I/O. > > > Why wouldn't continue using C code for that? It's trivial > (just a dict > lookup). > > > Sure, but it's all the code between the function call and hitting > sys.modules which would also need to get shoved into the C code. As I > said, I have not tried to optimize anything yet (and unfortunately a > lot of the upfront costs are over stupid things like checking if > __import__ is being called with a string for the module name).
I guess my point was: why is there a function call in that case? The "import" statement could look up sys.modules directly. Or the built-in __import__ could still be written in C, and only defer to importlib when the module isn't found in sys.modules. Practicality beats purity. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com