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Re:A beginners guide to using Python for performance computing by illumen on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:43AM (#2990396)
Shedskin compiles python to C++. It's getting quite good too. You can compile up to 10,000 lines within an acceptable time now. It is a subset of python though, so more dynamic things do not work.

You can also get it to compile as a CPython module. The latest release supports the mmap module, so it is possible to quickly share large array data without copying. Shedskin 1.0 is coming out maybe within a number of months after years of development.

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Re:A beginners guide to using Python for performance computing by stephth on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:55AM (#2990431)
The C++ code it generates depends on a Python runtime, doesn't it? That means you can't use it to write - for example - C++ libraries.
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