Anyone ever heard of Nuitka? I discovered this project today, and it looks very promising.
It's a compiler for Python, which basically translates Python to C++ and then compiles it to machine code. It could be used for translating purposes as well. Unlike other things like that, such as PyPy, Cython, ShedSkin, they aim to be 100% compatible with CPython syntax. Nuitka does not create its own implementation of the Python language, rather it uses the ast package. of CPython to parse code, which could be a strong point to keep compatibility. In Nuitka's TODO list there is an interesting feature: static typing through decorators, which unlike Cython's *cdef*, do not break CPython compatibility. Unfortunately it's not yet implemented, but once it will be, I think the best solution to speed up SymPy would be to clean up Python's code and put static-variable-decorators. As of now, Python variables are still translated as PyObject pointers, which shouldn't have great benefits in term of speed. In any case, Nuitka could also be used as a starting translation towards a C++ implementation of SymPy, or keep development in Python and use it to generate C++ code. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
