On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 at 14:30 Andrew Barnert via Python-Dev < python-dev@python.org> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2016, at 13:43, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > According to microbenchmarks, the most promising optimizations are > > functions inlining (Python function calls are slow :-/) and specialize > > the code for the type of arguments. > > Can you specialize a function with a C API function, or only with > bytecode? I'm not sure how much benefit you'd get out of specializing list > vs. generic iterable or int vs. whatever from an AST transform, but > substituting raw C code, on the other hand... > Victor's work is only manipulation of ASTs and bytecode. If you want something that low-level you need to either reach for Cython or hope a project like Pyjion pays off.
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