FYI: Cython vs Pyrex

[Alexander Belchenko]

09.05.2011 16:54, John Arbash Meinel пишет:
> On 5/9/2011 3:29 PM, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> 09.05.2011 13:49, INADA Naoki ?8H5B:
>>> 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. 

First versions of Cython have generated C99-only code that cannot be
compiled with MSVC. I'm glad it's fixed now.

> I *think* the EC2
> instance we use doesn't have pyrex installed, and we are already using
> Cython for the Windows installers.

Can we have bzr 2.4b2 installer, pretty please? I've asked Gary about
installer but have no response from him.