[SciPy-Dev] Using Pythran to compile some of the scipy internals

[serge guelton]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 03:28:40PM +0100, Serge Guelton wrote:
> > Another potential benefit is to decrease the size of the binary distribution of
> > SciPy. Cython extensions are quite expensive in this respect. Do you have an
> > idea of how Pythran compares? Both in case of only float64 inputs, and with
> > templated inputs? A good example of the latter is scipy.ndimage.label, which is
> > a straightforward function that ends up being a 700kb .so
> 
> Thanks for pointing out this aspect. There's still room for improvement
> here, but with current pythran's master, and same compilation flags, the
> cython implementation of `max_len_seq_inner` takes ~700kb while
> pythran's version takes ~200kb.
> 
> I'm going to investigate that a bet more though, and probably post the
> results in this thread later on.

Hey scip-dev, finally the result of some dev + thoughts on
Pythran-generated code:

    http://serge-sans-paille.github.io/pythran-stories/shrinking-pythran-generated-binaries.html

I'll move on to Windows support now :-)