On 3/5/2016 4:31 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:
2. How important is this speed difference?
I believe Pygame originally used SWIG or something similar to wrap the
underlying C SDL library. When a ctypes version was tried, it was much
slower, so slow that they stayed with the original wrapping. I
Le 05/03/2016 10:31, Larry Hastings a écrit :
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> I always feel a little funny when people talk about performance in
> Python. Not that I believe performant Python isn't possible or
> desirable--just that, if you're writing your code in Python, you've
> already implicitly conceded that performan
Larry Hastings hastings.org> writes:
> 2. How important is this speed difference? I suppose the answer,
> as always, is "it depends". It depends on how often you call the
> C library, and how long you spend in the routine when you get
> there. Certainly a benchmark for l
I guess I have two responses to that.
1. I don't know what it is about cffi that makes it slow. Perhaps it
could be improved? If it got a lot of traction, maybe it'd get more
eyes looking at it?
2. How important is this speed difference? I suppose the answer, as
always, is "it depends".
Stefan Krah bytereef.org> writes:
> We're talking about a slowdown of at least an order of magnitude here:
>
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-December/130772.html
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> I think people who don't need the C-API can use PyPy.
Or, of course, use CPython with Numba, which handles
