On 20 February 2018 at 16:17, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:15:27 +0100 > Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: >> Nick Coghlan schrieb am 02.02.2018 um 06:47: >> > to make the various extension module authoring tools >> > easier to discover, rather than having folks assuming that handcrafted >> > calls directly into the CPython C API is their only option. >> >> Or even a competitive option. Tools like Cython or pybind11 go to great >> length to shave off every bit of overhead from C-API calls, commonly >> replacing high-level C-API functionality with macros and direct access to >> data structures. The C/C++ code that they generate is so complex and tuned >> that it would be infeasible to write and maintain something like that by >> hand, but it can perfectly be generated, and it usually performs visibly >> better than most hand-written modules, definitely much better than anything >> a non-expert could write. >> >> Basically, by not learning the C-API you can benefit from all that highly >> tuned and specialised code written by C-API experts that the documentation >> doesn't even tell you about. > > Doesn't the documentation ever mention Cython? It probably should (no > idea about pybind11, which I've never played with). Perhaps you can > open an issue about that?
We mention them in the Extending & Embedding guide, and link out to the page on packaging.python.org that describes them in more detail: https://docs.python.org/3/extending/index.html#recommended-third-party-tools Cheers, Nick. P.S. There are also a number of open issues at https://github.com/pypa/python-packaging-user-guide/issues regarding additional projects that should be mentioned in https://packaging.python.org/guides/packaging-binary-extensions/ -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
