The newest edition of the powerful Python-to-C compilation framework adds speedups harvested from the next version of Python What’s faster than Python? C. What’s also far less convenient than Python?

Cython* is a superset of Python* that additionally supports C functions and C types on variable and class attributes. Cython is used for wrapping external C libraries that speed up the execution of a ...

Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...