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Cinpy - or C in Python

Post by at » Wed, Dec 03, 2008, 8:37 PM UTC

Cinpy - or C in Python
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Re: Cinpy - or C in Python

Post by petercooper » Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 1:11 AM UTC

Very nice. If any folks interested in Ruby are reading the article and feeling jealous, make sure to check out RubyInline ( http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/RubyInline/ ) - it's pretty solid.

Might do a direct comparison of the efficiency of the bridging between RubyInline and Cinpy if I get some time. I suspect Python would win just because Ruby's object bridging is quite intense..

Re: Cinpy - or C in Python

Post by jgrahamc » Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 1:53 PM UTC

So C is the new assembler. I remember the days when you optimized your C code by writing inline assembly.

Re: Cinpy - or C in Python

Post by jcl » Thu, Dec 04, 2008, 2:41 PM UTC

You might also want to look at Scipy's weave:

http://www.scipy.org/Weave

It's not as small or self-contained, but it looks to be more actively maintained.

A comparison with some other optimization methods:

http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython

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