>>> Is using Cython for anything in Modules/ really an option? In my limited
>>> experiments with it, I did like it.
>>>
>>> But using it for Python standard library stuff doesn't look quite right to
>>> me:
>>>
>>> - Option 1: distribute Cython with Python and integrate into build process
>>> -- Ouch!
>>
>> Can you be a bit more descriptive?
>
> Cython is still being worked on (intensively, it seems). Bundling it
> with Python means deciding on a particular version probably for
> an entire major release lifecycle (use Cython x.y.{newest} for
> Python 2.7, for example).If we're talking about Cython for core libraries... For the subset of python that also works in Cython, I've seen a 10-30% performance speedups on (admittedly trivial) test code. Conceivably, *everything* could be Cython-compiled if you cared about performance more than transparency. Brendan anyall.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
