On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Magnus Lie Hetland <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my PhD students suggested adding Cython to the Computer > Language Benchmark Game: > > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ > > Seems like it would be fun -- after all, there are already Python > implementations there (for 11 problems), so as a start, one could > simply wrap up a proper compilation script for Cython, and submit it. > Fiddling with declarations etc. would be a natural next step, of course. > > I'm thinking about doing something here myself, but I'm a bit busy > with another project at the moment, so I thought I'd mention it here, > in case someone else felt inspired. > > I think this is a shootout many people refer to when discussing > relative performance of languages; getting Cython in there might peak > the interest of people who might actually need it, but who don't know > it exists... > > (Sorry for cross-posting -- I guess this might be relevant for both > lists.) >
I've always wanted somebody to add Cython to that page, since I think Cython should do as well as C in every benchmark... which would be fun because C wins every benchmark. William _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
