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

[Stefan Krah]

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