Re: [Python-ideas] Matching multiple regex patterns simultaneously

Greg Ewing, 05.03.2010 00:07:

I have a half-finished project on the back burner to reimplement the core of Plex using Pyrex, but it's been languishing for so long that the burner has probably gone out by now. Maybe I should relight it...

Cython bootstraps the tiny truely performance-critical part of it (Scanners.py) into C code during installation and uses an external Scanners.pxd file to override the Python types in the module with C types. The other modules don't seem to matter in benchmarks, but compiling the inner loop of the scanner clearly gives a performance boost. Stefan