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Cython

• Never again
  4 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 21 May 2023

  and again, everything that was released after using an older version of cython.

  4 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 21 May 2023

  Packages using cython (note the linked issues) due to this change.

• Codon: Python Compiler
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2023

  Just for reference,

  * Nuitka[0] "is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11."

  * Pypy[1] "is a replacement for CPython" with builtin optimizations such as on the fly JIT compiles.

  * Cython[2] "is an optimising static compiler for both the Python programming language and the extended Cython programming language... makes writing C extensions for Python as easy as Python itself."

  * Numba[3] "is an open source JIT compiler that translates a subset of Python and NumPy code into fast machine code."

  * Pyston[4] "is a performance-optimizing JIT for Python, and is drop-in compatible with ... CPython 3.8.12"

  [0] https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka

  [1] https://www.pypy.org/

  [2] https://cython.org/

  [3] https://numba.pydata.org/

  [4] https://github.com/pyston/pyston

• Any faster Python alternatives?
  6 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 12 Apr 2023

  Profile and optimize the hotspots with cython (or whatever the cool kids are using these days... It's been a while.)

• Python executable makers
  2 projects | /r/Python | 26 Mar 2023

  Cython - - embed demo

• Been using Python for 3 years, never used a Class.
  2 projects | /r/learnpython | 15 Mar 2023

  There are also just-in-time compilers available for some Python features, that compile those parts to machine code. That includes Numba (usable as a library within CPython) and Pypy (an alternative Python implementation that includes a JIT compiler to improve performance). There’s also Cython, which is a superset of Python that allows more directly interfacing with C and C++ functions, and compiling the resulting combined code.

• Python-based compiler achieves orders-of-magnitude speedups
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2023
• Surprising Consequences of macOS’s Environment Variable Sanitization
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2023

  Conceptually, Cython is mainly for accelerating Python code, and can _also_ access C code. Meanwhile CFFI is specifically for calling C code and nothing else. I recommend the video for the differences.

  One concrete thing that pops to my mind is that Cython doesn't support Py_LIMITED_API which means that you need to ship a lot more binary wheels. At least the issue is still open (https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/2542) and Cython projects IME need new wheels for each minor Python release. Compare that to cffi projects that (musl & pypy aside) only have to ship wheels for one Python version / architecture: https://pypi.org/project/argon2-cffi-bindings/#files

• Starlite development updates January ’23
  9 projects | /r/Python | 10 Jan 2023

  As you can see, in this benchmark Starlite handily beats even blakchseep, a notoriously fast ASGI framework written in Cython

• Codon: A high-performance Python compiler
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2022

  How does this relate to

  https://cython.org/

  ?

  Would it be possible to write performance-sensitive parts of a Python system in Codon and link that to a CPython or PyPy runtime that supports more dynamic features?