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Author pitrou
Recipients christian.heimes, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhdv, serhiy.storchaka, shashank
Date 2012-11-04.14:45:53
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> If the encryption is so horrible why is there any support (with bad
> performance) at all in Python?
> It would be better to remove it altogether.

We don't remove it as it would break existing programs which rely on
this feature. However adding a bunch of C code to improve performance of
such a questionable feature is controversial.

I wouldn't be against the acceleration myself, however I am not
interested in reviewing or accepting it, sorry.
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Date User Action Args
2012-11-04 14:45:54pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, christian.heimes, r.david.murray, shashank, serhiy.storchaka, rhdv
2012-11-04 14:45:54pitroulinkissue10030 messages
2012-11-04 14:45:53pitroucreate