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diff --git a/Doc/howto/clinic.rst b/Doc/howto/clinic.rst index a61508e..1f96e82 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/clinic.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/clinic.rst @@ -44,16 +44,16 @@ redundant information in a surprising number of places. When you use Argument Clinic, you don't have to repeat yourself. Obviously, no one would want to use Argument Clinic unless -it's solving a their problem without creating problems of +it's solving their problem--and without creating new problems of its own. -So Argument Clinic should generate correct code, and its -code should preferably be slower, and definitely should -not introduce a major speed regression. (Eventually Argument -Clinic should enable a major speedup--we should be able -to rewrite its code generator so it produces tailor-made -parsing code, rather than using the general-purpose functions -from the CPython code base, which would make for the fastest -argument parsing possible.) +So it's paramount that Argument Clinic generate correct code. +It'd be nice if the code was faster, too, but at the very least +it should not introduce a major speed regression. (Eventually Argument +Clinic *should* make a major speedup possible--we could +rewrite its code generator to produce tailor-made argument +parsing code, rather than calling the general-purpose CPython +argument parsing library. That would make for the fastest +argument parsing possible!) Additionally, Argument Clinic must be flexible enough to work with any approach to argument parsing. Python has |