1 Aug
2018
1 Aug
'18
12:19 p.m.
CFFI is much slower than CPython's C-API:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-December/130772.html
CPython's API is actually quite fast in comparison to FFIs of various languages.
The only FFI I know that *achieves* C Python's speed despite being garbage collected is OCaml's. So garbage collection certainly isn't a panacea either, probably on the contrary.
Comparisons to state-of-the-art Lisp implementations like SBCL would be interesting.