Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > I don't think we have to think of ourselves as in direct competition > with PyPy (and/or Unladen Swallow). Personally I'm more than happy to > use pure Python rather than Cython for the kind of things that can be > sped up by those projects anyway (makes for a shorter compile/run cycle).
I do actually see PyPy as a direct competitor of Cython (much more than Jython and IronPython, BTW), as both projects aim to compile Python code to fast native code. Currently, we are faster and they are more feature complete. But if we can have the cake and eat it, too... > What I think sets Cython apart is that we add a superset to the Python > language for adding types; which are simply needed in some situations. I > think that is where we "compete". That's rather where we are beyond competition. > When PyPy runs as fast as CPython, perhaps PyPy can start supporting the > Cython type annotations (at least the pure Python mode ones); Jython > could support the same annotations in time, and so on. Let's wait and see, but I doubt that there will be a major interest in doing that. I actually find it more important for Cython to gain type inference mechanisms that lift the requirement for defining types in the first place, at least for standard use cases. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
