[Python-ideas] discouraging direct use of the C-API

[Donald Stufft]

> On May 7, 2015, at 5:11 AM, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> 
> Caleb Hattingh <caleb.hattingh at ...> writes:
>>> -1. CFFI is much slower than using the C-API directly.
>> 
>> I am quite interested in this; do you happen have a link to a case
> study/gist/repo where this has been
>> measured? Even if you can remember people’s names involved or something
> similar, I could google it myself.
> 
> I've measured it here:
> 
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-December/130772.html
> 
> 
> CFFI is very nice (superb API), but not for high performance use cases.
> 

Is the source code for this benchmark available anywhere?

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