Thuan Seah Tan wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to python and currently I am working on a traffic simulation > which I plan to define the various agents using scripting. It's kind of like > scripting for non-playable character in games. I am thinking of using python > for this but I am concerned with running time. Is scripting a lot slower > compared to direct implementation in C++? Does compiling the script help in > any way? Also, can anyone recommend me a book that covers python in general > as well as C++ binding? Thanks.
Even if pure python turns out to be slow for some critical parts of your application, there are quite a few ways to deal with it: psyco, pyrex, weave/blitz, ctypes, SWIG, Boost-python, SIP, CXX, SCXX, hand-written C extensions and perhaps more. Visit http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython for an example of taking a simple pure Python function and boosting it using several different tools. Check out the final comparison table first; the pyrex version is less than half a second slower than the C++. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
