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Writing performant extensions for (C)Python requires knowing both C and the CPython API. In Julia it is easy to call C shared library functions directly with no

Writing performant extensions for (C)Python requires knowing both C and the CPython API. In Julia it is easy to call C shared library functions directly with no overhead (similar to PyPy with CFFI).

mmerickel 13y ago
CFFI works fine with CPython, and ctypes loads shared libraries without issue as well.
- ihnorton 13y ago
  Both of which have non-trivial overhead in CPython.