On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Sergey Bochkanov <sergey.bochka...@alglib.net> wrote: > Hello, > > thanks to all who've replied to this discussion! > > Taking into account what was said above, I've decided to target > pure > ANSI C, i.e. C without newer constructs like // comments and > other > stuff from newer standards. I don't want to use C99 because it > isn't > supported by MSVC (de facto standard under Windows). > > I think that I'll make exception for static inlines because they can > be easily turned on/off with just one #define. Another exception - I > want to make use of SSE intrinsics (if they are provided by compiler), > but slower ANSI C equivalent will be provided so one #define - and > everything will be ANSI. > > > On 9 июн, 00:14, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> Back to your original question, you're talking about using/creating a >> Python C interface generator. In this case, you may want to just >> consider using Cython? > > Ctypes gives me better control over situation. Arrays and records with > complex fields (which are records/arrays too) are hard to represent in > Cython, I think. Cython is a good general purpose tool which speeds up > computations and may be used to generate wrappers. But I think that it > is better to develop specialized solution for ALGLIB. > > Furhtermore, I want to pass multiple precision types between Python > and > ALGLIB - it is hard to implement efficiently with general purpose > tools. > I just have no other chouice :)
I'm sure you could do this in Cython. It probably would be hard (isn't everything worth doing?), but at least Cython is widely used, debugged, tested, developed, etc. William > > > -- > With best regards, > Sergey mailto:sergey.bochka...@alglib.net > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
