On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 2/26/2013 10:13 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > >> I would like to discuss on the language summit a potential inclusion >> of cffi[1] into stdlib. > > > How does it compare in terms of speed. One reason ctypes has not replaces > hand-tuned swig is that it apparently is much slower. I know that someone, > for instance, once did a pygame fork using ctypes to wrap SDL, and got it to > run, but gave it up for comparative slowness reasons.
I never did the comparison with hand-tuned swig. It's faster than ctypes for calls and manipulation, C extension beat it to some degree. It's uber fast on PyPy (a bit over the native call, but we'll get it to the native call level). _______________________________________________ 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
