[Python-Dev] python optimization

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Neal Becker wrote:
> One possible way to improve the situation is, that if we really believe
> python cannot easily support such optimizations because the code is too
> "dynamic", is to allow manual annotation of functions.  For example, gcc
> has allowed such annotations using __attribute__ for quite a while.  This
> would allow the programmer to specify that a variable is constant, or that
> a function is pure (having no side effects).

Use pyrex. It is basically an python-syntax-clone C-Generator, and 
allows for type-annotation. It's supported by distutils, so that you can 
develop using pure python, and then take your critical code and move it 
to pyrex, with not too much effort.

Diez