People always say "use numpy", but that is only possible if your algorithm can be described in terms of vectorized operations. For many kinds of processing, the only alternative is C/C++ (through Cython)
> People always say "use numpy", but that is only possible if your algorithm can be described in terms of vectorized operations. For many kinds of processing, the only alternative is C/C++ (through Cython
Agreed
My personal experience is that you can actually get another factor of 2 or 3 speed-up by ditching Cython and using actual C instead (I think it's because optimizers have a hard time cleaning up the C that Cython produces), even if you've turned off thing's like bounds checking.