On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> wrote: > JIT is really the way to go. It is one thing that a JIT could optimize the > case where you pass a callback to a function and inline it run-time. But > even if it doesn't get that fancy, it'd be great to just be able to write > something like "cython.eval(s)" and have that be compiled (I guess you could > do that now, but the sheer overhead of the C compiler and all the .so files > involved means nobody would sanely use that as the main way of stringing > together something like pandas).
The overhead of running a fully optimizing compiler over pandas on every import is pretty high, though. You can come up with various caching mechanisms, but they all mean introducing some kind of compile time/run time distinction. So I'm skeptical we'll just be able to get rid of that concept, even in a brave new LLVM/PyPy/Julia world. -- Nathaniel _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
