*I don't see in pybind11 that it's claiming to be especially performant, only that it's convenient in passing data back and forth.*
*Is it claimed somewhere that it is especially fast?* On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com > wrote: > Why Cython and not just C++ with simple python bindings like > https://github.com/pybind/pybind11 ? What's the motivation? > > Have we considered the trade offs between maintainability, speed and > tooling? Also this Cython code is not going to be portable as it would > be in C++, and has some learning curve and tooling / portability > overhead. > > It could also complicate using MXNet from Brazil. > > Are there details somewhere of what is going to be converted to > Cython? Are there any measurements or profiling that indicate that > rewriting some parts in Cython is the best solution to some bottleneck > or slow code? > > Pedro. > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am starting to look into converting some of the python code to Cython. > > > > Any comments, suggestions, past experiences, are welcome. Can reply to > > this thread, or I have an editable document here: > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pvW5nYbf3pbiak95xZdqgLbrjQdvV > rVGoYdiU3hNsqc/edit?usp=sharing > > > > So far, the JIRA items are part of this epic: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MXNET-6 > > > > -Chris >
