Speeding up Python

[Cameron Laird]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.20.9910191510020.32336-100000 at fep132.fep.ru>,
Oleg Broytmann  <phd at phd.russ.ru> wrote:
>On 19 Oct 1999, TToommLL wrote:
>> I read that Industrial Light And Magic is using Python, but I don't see how
>> that is possible.  I need to do some heavy floating point and math.sin() number
>> crunching  but find that Python takes 40 times as long as C++.  I tried JPython
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>   Do low-level stuff in low-level languages, and high-level stuff in high
>lavael languages.
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>   Do number crunching in C, compile your code into a python module using
>compiler optimisation, link with optimised (both in terms of algorithms and
>compiler) math library.
>   And glue all your modules together with Python!
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Also, acquaint yourself with NumPy.  It might speed
satisfying development by a large factor.
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