On 6/30/06, René <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In general ctypes bindings are slightly slower than C ones.
Pypy 0.9, just released
(http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/extcompiler.html)
has a new extension compiler.
From the page:
Modules can be based on ctypes. This is the case in the
pypy/module/readline and pypy/module/_demo examples: they use ctypes
to access functions in external C libraries. When translated to C, the
calls in these examples become static, regular C function calls
This means, ultimately, the ctypes overhead can be removed completely.
Hooray for Pypy!