SWIG overhead

[Roman Yakovenko]

On 2/1/07, Chris Mellon <arkanes at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I understand it, part of the Boost.Python internals is a C++
> wrapper over the Python C api,

That's true.

>and there's no separate code generation
> phase because it uses template magic to generate the wrappers.

Well, actually it depends on the size of the project. If project is
small you can use
Boost.Python without a code generator. For big projects you have to use the code
generator. The advantage is that generated code is pretty readable.

> So
> while obviously the C API is used at some level, it's not visible to
> the wrapper author.

Boost.Python hides it pretty well :-)

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Roman Yakovenko
C++ Python language binding
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