Feb. 27, 2013
3:48 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 2/26/2013 10:13 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
I would like to discuss on the language summit a potential inclusion of cffi[1] into stdlib.
How does it compare in terms of speed. One reason ctypes has not replaces hand-tuned swig is that it apparently is much slower. I know that someone, for instance, once did a pygame fork using ctypes to wrap SDL, and got it to run, but gave it up for comparative slowness reasons.
I never did the comparison with hand-tuned swig. It's faster than ctypes for calls and manipulation, C extension beat it to some degree. It's uber fast on PyPy (a bit over the native call, but we'll get it to the native call level).