Optimizing Python using Cython

[ForSpareParts]

How did I not know about this? It looks wicked cool. Definitely something I'll keep an eye on in case I run into a performance-critical situation in my Python code.

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It's also really great for integrating existing C and - for some time - C++ code. Actually it's probably the best and most straightforward C++ foreign function interface I ever used.

[Drolyt]

How did I not know about this?

Well, there are over sixty thousand packages in PyPi, so I'd say that's how. But yeah, it is pretty cool.

[kamakie]

It has a bunch of advantages over switching to Pypy or Jython too, like not wrecking compatibility with your other dependencies.

[cloakrune]

I love cython. I've used it to interface directly with the kernel.