Future of Pypy?

[Dave Cook]

On 2015-02-23, Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance at OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> wrote:

> I did try Cython when I was trying to figure out what to do about the slow
> speed.  My initial attempt showed no speedup at all.  The documentation
> told me that I needed to change the data types to special C-like types, so
> it seemed to me that it would become half way between Python and C and
> would be as cumbersome to develop as C.  So at that point, I just rewrote
> it in C.

Right, you have add type info to get the speedup.  This can be done as
needed.  What Cython provides is a transparent interface between the C
compiler and Python, without the need for any wrapper code.  I'm
curious about the process you use to interface to C that is less
cumbersome.

Dave Cook