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detaro on Dec 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nuitka: a Python compiler

out of curiosity, which bindings did you use?

jarcane on Dec 19, 2014 [–]

libtcod. It was a roguelike.

ptx on Dec 19, 2014 | [–]

Those Python bindings seem to use ctypes, which is indeed slower[1] on PyPy. They recommend[2] using cffi instead.

[1] http://pypy.org/performance.html

[2] http://pypy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/extending.html

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