Cython: The best of both worlds

Stefan Behnel; Robert Bradshaw; Craig Citro; Lisandro Dalcin; Dag Sverre Seljebotn; Kurt Smith

doi:10.1109/MCSE.2010.118

Cython: The best of both worlds

Stefan Behnel^*, Robert Bradshaw, Craig Citro, Lisandro Dalcin, Dag Sverre Seljebotn, Kurt Smith

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Extreme Computing Research Center

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Abstract

Cython is a Python language extension that allows explicit type declarations and is compiled directly to C. As such, it addresses Python's large overhead for numerical loops and the difficulty of efficiently using existing C and Fortran code, which Cython can interact with natively.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	5582062
Pages (from-to)	31-39
Number of pages	9
Journal	Computing in Science and Engineering
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2010.118
State	Published - Mar 1 2011

Keywords

Cython
Python
numerics
scientific computing

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