On 25 October 2016 at 02:53, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > IS this na either-or? IF someone is proposing a nice lib for "low level data > buffer > manipulation", then yes, putting frombuffer() in there would be a fine idea. > > But if there is no such proposal on the table, then I think adding a > frombuffer method to the bytes object is a small improvement that we can do > now.
The suggestion came from folks working on asyncio performance improvements, and we already got the entire ``selectors`` abstraction from the original asyncio implementation work, as well as Yury's new libuv-based ``uvloop`` asyncio event loop implementation. Given that "make OpenStack/SDN/NFV run faster" is a key point of interest for folks like Intel and Red Hat, I'm *absolutely* suggesting that they put some paid time and energy into a lower level buffer manipulation library between now and the Python 3.7 feature freeze in 12+ months, as I think that will have longer term pay-offs well beyond the scope of the original use cases :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com