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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-12-03 21:25:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-12-03 21:25:17 +0100 |
| commit | 73080b8d1822eda3d587d16dfa921559439736b7 (patch) | |
| tree | a2c6fc27d24980ea20a0dc2b66ac9ace2994bafe /Doc/faq/extending.rst | |
| parent | 7dc0047d53726cbc9132330ca8ed2ef5c9fee994 (diff) | |
| parent | 9cb41dfbaa20bab73172076b598ac874ab8c8b4f (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-73080b8d1822eda3d587d16dfa921559439736b7.tar.gz | |
Remove references to psyco, which is mostly unmaintained and doesn't work with Python 3.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/extending.rst b/Doc/faq/extending.rst index bbc322ada1..7adedf5be6 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/extending.rst @@ -37,13 +37,7 @@ Writing C is hard; are there any alternatives? There are a number of alternatives to writing your own C extensions, depending on what you're trying to do. -.. XXX make sure these all work; mention Cython - -If you need more speed, `Psyco <http://psyco.sourceforge.net/>`_ generates x86 -assembly code from Python bytecode. You can use Psyco to compile the most -time-critical functions in your code, and gain a significant improvement with -very little effort, as long as you're running on a machine with an -x86-compatible processor. +.. XXX make sure these all work `Cython <http://cython.org>`_ and its relative `Pyrex <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/>`_ are compilers |