[PD] pyext~

Georg Holzmann grh at mur.at
Tue Oct 16 10:13:41 CEST 2007


Hallo!

> To my experience python is quite fast, when the underlying C components 
> do most of the work (like with pyode, numpy, etc.).
> The C-python interpreter can't be called fast on the other hand, at 
> least compared to C/C++. If you do DSP processing using Python 
> statements (not numpy) it's really a waste of cpu.

Of course one has to use numpy, scipy and all that ...
They use quite optimized BLAS/LAPACK algorithms, which should be faster 
than pure pd - but I never tried the pd-numpy DSP combination.

LG
Georg




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