On Nov 5, 7:40 am, sandipm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did fair amount of programming in python but never used c/c++ as > mentioned below. > any good tutorials for using C/C++ to optimize python codebase for > performance? > how widely do they use such kind of mixed coding practices? [...]
Since you are fluent in Python I also suggest you to start with Pyrex[1]/Cython[2]. This will let you to express your ideas more naturally (in a Python-based language) and interface with C code base without delving much into reference counting, manual parameters conversion and low-level exception handling. You will find some tutorials and links to resources and mailing lists on the projects websites, and if you specify your problem a bit more then probably someone will be able to give you more precise references. For alternatives take a look at [3] and [4]. Try also scanning the Python Package Index[5] for 'binding', 'wrapper', 'lib' or 'pyrex' keywords or browse for C/C++ Programming Language category as this will return some examples of Python extensions. [1] http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/ [2] http://www.cython.org/ [3] http://www.python.org/doc/faq/extending/#writing-c-is-hard-are-there-any-alternatives [4] http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html [5] http://pypi.python.org fw -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list