In general ctypes bindings are slightly slower than C ones.
However the difference won't mean much most of the time, since lots of time is spend in SDL land anyway. On 6/30/06, Mark Heslep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alex - Great work. Have you gotten any timing data/benchmarks for comparison between the ctypes wrapper and the original pygame? Mark Alex Holkner wrote: > Hi all > > This release of SDL-ctypes is feature complete for SDL versions 1.2.1 > through 1.2.11, and includes SDL_image, SDL_mixer and SDL_ttf, as well > as ports of all the test programs. You can download it and the > documentation from: > > http://www.pygame.org/ctypes > > The joystick functions are completely untested, since I don't have a > joystick. If anyone has a spare minute (and a joystick), I'd > appreciate someone running the "testjoystick.py" test and comparing > the results with "testjoystick" in the SDL distribution. > > So far I expect this to work only on Linux little-endian (Intel or > AMD) systems. Mac, Windows and big-endian support will be the next > focus. > > Cheers, > Alex. >
