Lizhi Yang wrote:
Since the memory usage for saving huge data using python is not
efficent at all(12 bytes per int). if I want to implement algorithms
and load the huge amount of data using C++, but using Python as the
glue language to implement other functionality such as Gui and txt
processing, you think Boost.python is better or SWIG is better? Have
not tried yet,
just need to make decision first, thanks.

arrays of ints don't take 12 bytes per, they take 4. That's the same in C++ or in Python. So if that's the only reason to use C++, stick with Python. Probably you were looking at the overhead of list, which lets you put different types of data in different offsets. If you really have an (huge) array of ints, use array.array() to create it.

As for talking between C++ and Python, you have a number of choices. You probably should look at ctypes, since it's built-in, before trying something more complex.

DaveA
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