Codon – extensible Python compiler

Codon is a high-performance Python implementation that compiles to native machine code without any runtime overhead. Typical speedups over vanilla Python are on the order of 10-100x or more, on a single thread. Codon’s performance is typically on par with (and sometimes better than) that of C/C++.

Unlike Python, Codon supports native multithreading, which can lead to speedups many times higher still.

This is free and open source software.

Use cases:

• Accelerate Python code without having to rewrite it in another language.
• Write multithreaded or GPU code in Python.
• Compile Python code to run on various kinds of hardware, such as edge devices or embedded systems.
• JIT-compile performance-sensitive functions in an existing Python codebase.
• Accelerate and parallelize NumPy code.
• Create Python extensions without using C or Cython.

Website: github.com/exaloop/codon
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Developer: Exaloop
License: Apache License 2.0

Codon is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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