On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Gabriele Brambilla <gb.gabrielebrambi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, > but I want to make a C extension to run faster a function from > scipy.interpolate (interp1d)
Just to emphasis: I believe your goal should be: "I want to make my program fast." Your goal should probably not be: "I want to write a C extension". I'm not saying that writing a C extension is necessarily wrong, and it may be that writing a C extension will make your program fast. But this approach may not be the easiest or most maintainable approach to improving your program's performance. Using C is not without its costs and risks. As soon as you are in C territory, the seat belts are off. Just recall the craziness that happened this week with regards to programs written in low-level languages like C. Explicitly: http://heartbleed.com. If you are writing with C, you have to be very, very delicate with your code. Experts get it wrong, with severe consequences. This is why the focus on C extensions to get speed disturbs me so much: it assumes that C is a safe language to use. It's not, especially for beginners. We should strongly discourage low-level languages unless there is some overriding concern. For scientific calculations like the ones you are doing, you should place a premium on getting a right answer, and not just a fast answer. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor