SWIG overhead

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 10:21 am, Bart Ogryczak wrote:
> Hi,
> I´m looking for some benchmarks comparing SWIG generated modules with
> modules made directly with C/Python API. Just how much overhead does
> SWIG give? Doing profile of my code I see, that it spends quiet some
> time in functions like _swig_setattr_nondinamic, _swig_setattr,
> _swig_getattr.

There was a EuroPython paper describing some benchmarks. It's from 2004 so 
things have probably changed a bit (SIP is now fully documented for example).

http://people.web.psi.ch/geus/talks/europython2004_geus.pdf

Phil