[Pythonmac-SIG] Speed up Python on the Mac?

[Louis Pecora]

Christopher Barker wrote:

> Louis Pecora wrote:
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>> Christopher Barker wrote:
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>> Yeow, Chris, you really have a lot to say about what I'm interested 
>> in.  Thanks very much!
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> That's because I'm in the same boat. I keep bouncing back and forth 
> between the approaches, because it's hard to find one that does 
> everything well. At the moment, I think I'm going with SWIG. I found 
> some typemaps (what SWIG uses to translate for Python types to C 
> types) for Numeric arrays that I want to use.

I use Numeric a lot.  Where are those typemaps?   Por favor.  :-)

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> I'm going with SWIG because I want to wrap a couple existing 
> libraries, and one that is under development now, and we need to use 
> from both C++ and Python. If it were just me, I'd dump C++ for primary 
> app development (like you're working on), and just write Python for 
> anything not computationally intensive. But it's not up to me, and 
> folks here are distrustful of anything "new".

At NOAA?  Isn't that a research place?  Sheeze.  You think they'd want 
you looking for new stuff.

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> If I didn't need to use the same libs from C++ and Python, and was 
> more comfortable with C++ I'd probably give Boost::python a try. Or 
> Pyrex. It depends on whether you see yourself writing just the inner 
> loops in C, where pyrex would be an excellent choice, or writing a 
> full lib with classes and all that, where Boost::Python would probably 
> be a better option.

I tried installing the Boost libraries and got hung up.  That was for 
another project where I wanted to use someone elses code for n-ary 
search tress, but it required boost.  Never did get it to work.

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> I'd like to hear how things go for you. Particularly if you use SWIG, 
> we could probably help each other out.
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Ya got a deal.  I'm going to look hard at SWIG right now. 

Thanks.

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Lou Pecora

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