[Tutor] Compiling Python to Native Machine Code

[Alexandre Ratti]

Hi Marc,


Marc Barry wrote:
> The type of algorithm I am using is the well known Dijkstra shortest 
> path. 

 > I may have to look at implementing the Dijkstra algorithm portion of
 > the simulation in C. Although, it would be a terrible waste of time if
 > I didn't do any better than the 10% reduction I got using Psyco.

I don't know this algorithm, so maybe this suggestion won't apply, but 
have you tried using Pyrex? Pyrex is a tool that takes Pythonic code as 
input (basically Python + type declarations) and that outputs C 
extensions. This might make it easier to test whether recoding tne 
algorithm in C is worth it.

"Pyrex lets you write code that mixes Python and C data types any way 
you want, and compiles it into a C extension for Python."

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/

There is a usage example in this doc: /Python 201 -- (Slightly) Advanced 
Python Topics/:

http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_201/python_201.html#SECTION006400000000000000000


Cheers.

Alexandre