Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] OPENGL

[horace <hor...@gm...>]

would it be possible to write a tool which automatically converts ctype
wrappers to pyrex? wouldn't that be nice?

i am no computer scientist though and maybe this is a stupid idea which
isn't feasible. :)

On 3/15/07, Thomas Heller <th...@ct...> wrote:
>
> Greg Ewing schrieb:
> > Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> >> Actually, ctypes is quite slow compared to e.g. SWIG.  That's because
> it
> >> does a lot more work at run-time for every call than a SWIG or similar
> >> system does.  OpenGL-ctypes (PyOpenGL) is even slower because it has to
> >> provide the array and similar semantics that aren't available in
> ctypes'
> >> core.
> >
> > This is a little worrying, as OpenGL calls are something you
> > really don't want being inefficient. I'm hoping this is more
> > of a theoretical than practical concern. Has anyone done any
> > measurements?
>
> Andrew Dalke as written two nice articles about ctypes that I know of:
>
> http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/NBN/ctypes.html
> http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/NBN/c_extensions.html
>
> The latter has some comparisons between ctypes and a C-coded
> extension.
>
> Thomas
>
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