Python; standard Python codecs might even be cythonized in Recode.
- Program and library initialization get revised to spare disk
accesses and building descriptive structures, whenever possible.
+- The main program directly links to the Python API rather than
+ through the C API, while the C API becomes a separate facility.
I once thought about resorting to kludges, within a Python API
interface, so the Python interpreter would not be required at all at