Re: [python-committers] CFFI is slow (was: Re: Redoing the C API?)

Stefan Krah <stefan <at> bytereef.org> writes:

We're talking about a slowdown of at least an order of magnitude here:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-December/130772.html

I think people who don't need the C-API can use PyPy.

Or, of course, use CPython with Numba, which handles an ever increasing amount of traditional bottlenecks: For example, it is possible to write a "native speed" transpose function for NumPy arrays in plain Python.

Stefan Krah