FYI: Cython vs Pyrex

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 15:54 +0200, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> On 5/9/2011 3:29 PM, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> > 09.05.2011 13:49, INADA Naoki пишет:
> >> I tried simple test on IPython.
> >>
> >> a = range(10000)
> >> %timeit _bencode_pyx.bencode(a)
> >>
> >> Cython: 2.5ms
> >> Pyrex: 3.04ms
> >>
> >> Now Bazaar uses Pyrex when both of Pyrex and Cython is installed.
> >> How about use Cython for default?
> > 
> > As I remember, Cython generates the code which cannot be compiled with
> > MSVC, and windows installer seems to use MSVC to build extensions.
> > Maybe they fixed that, but I'm not sure somebody cares.
> > 
> 
> I use MSVC and Cython, I haven't had problems with it. I *think* the EC2
> instance we use doesn't have pyrex installed, and we are already using
> Cython for the Windows installers.
> 
The Debian/Ubuntu packages depend on either cython or pyrex, but list
cython first which means that all of the Debian/Ubuntu buildds use
cython.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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