Cython AlternativesCompilers and other similar apps like Cython

Apps similar to Cython include Numba, which is free and open source. Other options are nuitka, Shed Skin and Berp. In total there are four Compilers like Cython for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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  1. Numba icon
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    Numba gives you the power to speed up your applications with high performance functions written directly in Python. With a few annotations, array-oriented and math-heavy Python code can be just-in-time compiled to native machine instructions, similar in performance to C, C++ and...

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  2. nuitka icon
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    Nuitka is a Python compiler.

    It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5.

    You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  3. Shed Skin icon
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    Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python (2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Berp is an implementation of Python 3. At its heart is a translator, which takes Python code as input and generates Haskell code as output. The Haskell code is fed into a Haskell compiler (GHC) for compilation to machine code or interpretation as byte code.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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