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[Python-Dev] API bloat

[Python-Dev] API bloat [Python-Dev] API bloatNick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 13:22:49 CET 2011
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Mark Shannon <marks at dcs.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Doing a search for the regex:  "PyAPI_FUNC\([^)]*\) *Py" in .h files,
> which should match API functions (functions starting _Py are excluded) gives
> the following result:
>
> Version  matches
> 3.0       717
> 3.1.3     728
> 3.2b2     743
>
> It would appear the API  bloat is real,
> not just an artefact of updated docs.

Since it doesn't account for #ifdef, a naive count like that isn't a
valid basis for comparison.

I would hazard a guess that a substantial amount of the additional
numbers there are going to be from new alternative definitions of
Py_hash_t and some of the Py_UNICODE macros.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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