[Zope-dev] Using Pyrex (with BTrees)?

[Martijn Faassen]

Andreas Jung wrote:
> Has anyone tried to use Pyrex with BTree datastructures? I tried to
> use Pyrex to optimize a bottleneck in TextIndexNG3 where an iteration
>  over a list of word ids (and insertion into an IOBTree) takes very
> long. Unfortunately the C extension produced by Pyrex behaves
> differently from the original code because several unittests do
> fail...anyone with similar experiences?

I haven't tried this, quite an interesting experiment, though. I've used 
Pyrex extensively with lxml (wrapping libxml2), but there I'm not 
comparing with hand-written C code so it's a difficult situation to compare.

Regards,

Martijn