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		ihnorton on March 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python vs Julia – an example from machine learning 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 on March 12, 2014 [–]

CFFI works fine with CPython, and ctypes loads shared libraries without issue as well.

ihnorton on March 12, 2014 | [–]

Both of which have non-trivial overhead in CPython.

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