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Author pitrou
Recipients Trundle, benjamin.peterson, daniel.urban, eric.araujo, ncoghlan, pitrou, rhettinger
Date 2011-04-06.14:09:46
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> Why not add fast paths to the generic functions if that's what you're
> concerned about?
> 
> It's unexpected for the user of the functions and breaks years of
> tradition. What if someone calls PyList_Append on a custom type that
> doesn't do as they expect and then PyList_GET_ITEM?
> 
> It seems like asking for subtle bugs to me. The only correct way to is
> change code that uses these type specific apis to use the generic
> ones.

I agree with Benjamin.
IIRC we already have a bunch of fast paths in abstract.c.
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2011-04-06 14:09:49pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, rhettinger, ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, Trundle, daniel.urban
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