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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).

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

Both of which have non-trivial overhead in CPython.

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