On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Tim Wintle <tim.win...@teamrubber.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 21:52 -0500, Peng Yu wrote: >> http://psyco.sourceforge.net/ >> >> The above package can improve python program on 32 bit library. But I >> need to run on 64 bit library. Is there any other module that can help >> improving the performance of python on 64 bit? > > As I understand it, Psycho isn't likely to get updated to 64-bit unless > someone decides to supply a significant amount of funding to the > developers. > > If you've on a platform where compiling C is easy then I'd highly > recommending using Cython for objects that have to be high-performance: > http://cython.org/ > > (It generates C from slightly modified python code - I use it on various > 64-bit *nix platforms) > > Otherwise you could write a standard C extension. > > The major native-code generation projects that I know of are Pypy and > Unladen Swallow, but neither of them are ready for use on 64-bit. > > > Tim
Assuming you really need something like psyco, Cython's the way to go- but you may want to look into writing a C extension, too. I've found in some cases that it can actually be easier than using ctypes or Cython. Geremy Condra PS- a brief note, at some point this week the browser extension I use to swap the 'reply' and 'reply to all' buttons decided to die, so if you've gotten an offlist reply from me during that period, sorry about that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
