On Mar 1, 11:24 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Isaac Gouy wrote: > > On Mar 1, 8:10 am, Stefan Behnel wrote: > >> As long as that gives you improvements of > >> 100-1000 times almost for free, I wouldn't bother too much with changing > >> the platform just because someone shows me benchmark results of some code > >> that I absolutely don't need in my daily work. > > > What examples do you have of 1000x improvement? > > We hear that from time to time on the Cython mailing list. Here's a recent > example of a user who reported an 80 times speed-up before we helped in > getting the code straight, which brought another factor of 20. > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.cython.devel/4619 > > Speed-ups in the order of several hundred times are not uncommon for > computing intensive tasks and large data sets when you move from Python to > Cython, as it generates very optimised C code. > > Stefan
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