Writing an emulator in python - implementation questions (for performance)

Carl Banks pavlovevidence at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 00:10:04 EST 2009


On Nov 12, 6:29 pm, greg <g... at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> I would be taking a different approach -- develop a prototype
> in Python, concentrating on clarity rather than speed, and
> later reimplement the core of the emulator as an extension
> module, using Pyrex or Cython or otherwise.

But keep in mind he said he was doing it just for fun.  I don't know
about you, but I find it much more fun to try to write fast Python
than to write the fast stuff in C.  Not as effective, but more fun.


Carl Banks



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