New submission from Tom Cornebize: It is much faster to construct a Python array from the list and then cast this array, rather than using the "standard" constructor. See attached file to compare the performances.
This issue was previously asked on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39225263/why-is-ctypes-so-slow-to-convert-a-python-list-to-a-c-array/ ---------- components: ctypes files: ctypes_slow.py messages: 274111 nosy: Tom Cornebize priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: ctypes is too slow to convert a Python list to a C array type: performance Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44320/ctypes_slow.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27926> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com