Optimizing Python with Cython

[erjiang]

http://doublemap.github.io/blog/2015/05/29/optimizing-python/

[syllogism]

If you can live with changing the signature from two tuples to just taking the four floats, you'll see a big further improvement --- these are the only lines showing up yellow when running the code through cython -a: https://rawgit.com/syllog1sm/a13542690c59d5e60ebf/raw/499418...

[AdmiralAsshat]

Looking at this step:

-from math import sin, cos, acos

+from libc.math cimport sin, cos, acos

What happens if the C math functions and the Python math functions don't take the same arguments/kinds of arguments?

[kirbyfan64sos]

On my system, PyPy is 4x faster than the fastest Cython version given.