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> It's "real" support, using your criteria. However, it's slower in PyPy than in CPython and than what the same thing based on ctypes would be on PyPy. > If there's a pure-Python version of the C extension, it might be faster on PyPy than the C extension support that cpyext (PyPy C-API compatibility module) provides.

That's fine, the mere ability to run them will be nice. (:

> Cython-based code is currently incompatible (it goes well beyond the public C-API), but a GSoC project to generate ctypes-based pure-Python code from Cython is (was?) going on.

I remember that GSoC! Any idea as to what happened to it, if it was scrapped, or whatever?

parent voyvf 15 years ago

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