On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Jaidev Deshpande < deshpande.jai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi > > I need to perform cubic spline interpolation over a range of points, and I > have written the code for the same in C and in Python. > > The interpolation is part of a bigger project. I want to front end for the > project to be Python. Ideally I want Python only to deal with data > visualization and i/o, and I'll leave the computationally expensive part of > the project to C extensions, which can be imported as functions into Python. > > To this end, the interpolation can be handled in two ways: > > 1. I can either compile the C code into a module using the Python-C/C++ > API, through which I can simple 'import' the required function. > 2. I can use the Python code and extend it using Cython. > > Which will give me a better performance? > Aren't you, right now, in the ideal position to answer that question for yourself? You have the same algorithm implemented both in C and in Python. Can't you compile that python code with Cython, then just test the two to see which is faster? -- Jerry
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