# HG changeset patch # User Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> # Date 1449820425 -3600 # Fri Dec 11 08:53:45 2015 +0100 # Branch extradoc # Node ID a63ae0daebb6ac373ba9e6a2c1fff6a4d7896368 # Parent 35b3948376ca4b4142523b88f8c123dfb782d663 Replace very old recommendation to use ctypes diff --git a/performance.html b/performance.html --- a/performance.html +++ b/performance.html @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ for JIT optimization. If the extension module is both performance-critical and an interface to some C library, then it might be worthwhile to consider rewriting it as a pure Python version -that uses something like <tt class="docutils literal">ctypes</tt> for the interface.</li> +that uses <a class="reference external" href="http://cffi.readthedocs.org/">CFFI</a> for the interface.</li> <li><strong>Missing RPython modules</strong>: A few modules of the standard library (like <tt class="docutils literal">csv</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">cPickle</tt>) are written in C in CPython, but written natively in pure Python in PyPy. Sometimes the JIT is able to do a diff --git a/source/performance.txt b/source/performance.txt --- a/source/performance.txt +++ b/source/performance.txt @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ for JIT optimization. If the extension module is both performance-critical and an interface to some C library, then it might be worthwhile to consider rewriting it as a pure Python version - that uses something like ``ctypes`` for the interface. + that uses CFFI_ for the interface. * **Missing RPython modules**: A few modules of the standard library (like ``csv`` and ``cPickle``) are written in C in CPython, but written