[Python-ideas] discouraging direct use of the C-API

[Stefan Krah]

Caleb Hattingh <caleb.hattingh at ...> writes:
> > -1. CFFI is much slower than using the C-API directly.
> 
> I am quite interested in this; do you happen have a link to a case
study/gist/repo where this has been
> measured? Even if you can remember people’s names involved or something
similar, I could google it myself.

I've measured it here:

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


CFFI is very nice (superb API), but not for high performance use cases.



Stefan Krah