Re: Re: why is it so quiet in here?

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:09:49 -0700 Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> > Are you talking about a built-in version of Python's ctypes module?
> > There was a discussion on the Pyrex mailing list about what was
> > better, ctypes or Pyrex. The general concensus, though not proven,
> > was that ctypes would be slower. But what about adding new types to
> > Prothon, like numarray. I doubt a JIT could optimize something like
> > that? Or would one have to write it as a pure C library, then wrap it
> > for Prothon?
> 
> I don't know.  Is ctypes like my dll wrapper proposal?
> http://prothon.org/wiki?pagename=PyrexInProthon
>
Quoting from the ctypes introduction:

ctypes is a Python module allowing to create and manipulate C data types in Python.
These can then be passed to C-functions loaded from dynamic link libraries. 

> My proposal is only good for wrapping existing c libraries, not for writing
> new C extensions.  I thought psyco made writing new C extensions for Python
> unecessary.
> 
Psyco on a list of Int's will not be as fast as a C module on an array of int.
And how are you going to handle C++ and wxWidgets?

This discussion makes me ask how well Prothon can be embedded in other applications.
I do not remember the topic ever being mentioned. Can Prothon be easily integrated
into external applications? How will these applications access Prothon objects?

Lenard Lindstrom
<[email protected]>