On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:01:01AM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: [...] > Just an FYI; Pyrex certainly makes it relatively painless to write code > that interfaces with C, but it doesn't do much for performance, and > naively-written Pyrex code can actually be slower than carefully-optimized > Python code. So, for existing modules that were written in C for > performance reasons, Pyrex isn't currently a substitute.
I just want to second this; my experiments with pyrex on pysync produced no speedups. I got a much more noticable speed benefit from psyco. This was admittedly a long time ago... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Donovan Baarda http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
