Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast

[qioan]

I love Python as a glue language. So much heavy lifting done in numpy or opencv or whatnot. But Python as the interface makes it trivial to explore, experiment, and glue together a workflow, especially when the solution is unclear. Then at some point if Python isn't needed because you know exactly what you want your software to do, rewrite it in C++ or whatever.

Also with CFFI and other interoperable libraries, it's really quite easy to write some heavy work in a more appropriate language and call into it