#34755: Provide accelerated binary wheels
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Reporter: Stefan | Owner: nobody
Behnel |
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: | Version: dev
Uncategorized | Keywords: performance,
Severity: Normal | cython, wheels
Triage Stage: | Has patch: 0
Unreviewed |
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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With Cython 3.0 released, it seems worth providing accelerated binary
modules for important platforms that compile some Django modules with
Cython in order to speed them up.
The idea is to take the Django package as it is, identify a couple of
computationally intensive modules in it, compile them to binary extension
modules with Cython, package the result as a binary wheel, and upload it
to PyPI, next to the regular Python wheel, so that supported platforms can
pick it up instead of the plain Python wheel. Note that this is completely
optional since the binary wheels would behave just like the Python wheel,
except for being faster.
Alex Orlov from Instagram tried this with the Django URL routing module
back in 2017 and found a massive speedup, as he reported in his `PyCon-US`
2017 talk.
Even without any further manual optimisation, Cython compilation usually
leads to a speedup of 10-30%, which translates to a substantial amount of
time, energy and CO2-emissions saved on user side.
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