achieving performance using C/C++

[sandipm]

I did fair amount of programming in python but never used c/c++ as
mentioned below.
any good tutorials for using C/C++ to optimize python codebase for
performance?
how widely do they use such kind of mixed coding practices?

sandip

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From: "D.Hering"
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Python is very easily extended to near C speed. The Idea that FINALLY
sunk in, was that I should first program my ideas in Python WITHOUT
CONCERN FOR PERFOMANCE. Then, profile the application to find the
"bottlenecks" and extend those blocks of code to C or C++. Cython/
Pyrex/Sip are my preferences for python extension frameworks.
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