On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Nathan Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More disingenuous FUD here: http://www.sagemath.org/doc/html/prog/node36.html For the purposes to which SWIG was applied in that case, the findings are accurate. The wording is overly general, though; it doesn't talk about other use cases for which the findings are not applicable. When the amount of computation in C/C++ is fairly small (multiplying 2 GMP integers), and the Python-level wrapper function needs to be called many times, then the overhead of the various SWIG layers can become significant. When the amount of computation in C/C++ is fairly large (matmult on sparse matrices), the Python function call overhead will probably be insignificant. Making a blanket statement either way is incorrect. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
