I recently cythonized the performance critical parts of a numpy/scipy based project with much success. One does not necessarily need to get you hands dirty wri

I recently cythonized the performance critical parts of a numpy/scipy based project with much success. One does not necessarily need to get you hands dirty writing c-extensions ( although it can be a good exercise to learn the CPython API ). In cython, you just need to sprinkle some static types to the inner loops and bump the speed up.