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Sun Mar 20 12:40:49 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109572.html

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:32:34 -0400
Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The reason why there was no mention is probably because no one
> intimately familiar with Cython was there, and if they were - it was
> not brought up. If Cython supports PyPy - and Jython, and IronPython,
> your proposal makes sense. The reason for "pure" python implementation
> is so that other implementations can share the exact same standard
> library we have today.

Well, realistically, they don't. Some functionality just isn't
satisfied with a slow Python implementation. The io module is a primary
example of that.
(but I don't think a Cython version of io would be fast enough, either)

Regards

Antoine.

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