Python and the need for speed

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 4:42 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-04-11, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> You might look at MicroPython too (micropython.org).  A fairly complete
>> Python 3 implementation with some ahead-of-time compiling, no fancy
>> JIT.  Completely breaks the Python C API though.
>
> I didn't know there was such a thing as "The Python C API".
>
> Or do you just mean that the C API is different than that chosen by
> the developers of https://github.com/python/cpython?

Do you mean this?

https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/intro.html

ChrisA