FYI: Cython vs Pyrex

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 5/9/2011 3:29 PM, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> 09.05.2011 13:49, INADA Naoki пишет:
>> I tried simple test on IPython.
>>
>> a = range(10000)
>> %timeit _bencode_pyx.bencode(a)
>>
>> Cython: 2.5ms
>> Pyrex: 3.04ms
>>
>> Now Bazaar uses Pyrex when both of Pyrex and Cython is installed.
>> How about use Cython for default?
> 
> As I remember, Cython generates the code which cannot be compiled with
> MSVC, and windows installer seems to use MSVC to build extensions.
> Maybe they fixed that, but I'm not sure somebody cares.
> 

I use MSVC and Cython, I haven't had problems with it. I *think* the EC2
instance we use doesn't have pyrex installed, and we are already using
Cython for the Windows installers.

John
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