[Python-Dev] Cython for cPickle?

Mon Apr 23 00:48:16 CEST 2012

Alexandre Vassalotti wrote:
>> We have custom stack and 
> dictionary implementations just for the sake of speed. We also have fast 
> paths for I/O operations and function calls.

All of that could very likely be carried over almost
unchanged into a Cython version. I don't see why it
should take multiple months. It's not a matter of
rewriting it from scratch, just translating it from
one dialect (C) to another (the C subset of Cython).
-- 
Greg