Have you tried out any of the options for speeding up Python apps, like Cython, writing parts that are in the perf bottleneck in C (if that is applicable), usin

Have you tried out any of the options for speeding up Python apps, like Cython, writing parts that are in the perf bottleneck in C (if that is applicable), using ctypes / cffi to call C libraries for some tasks, etc.? You can use ctypes or cffi to call either existing libraries or ones you write.