Summary

There are many different techniques and ideas demonstrated in this chapter, but it should serve as a strong reference on common techniques. We saw the speedups in using native types to bypass the runtime, and compiled Python code into its own binary. The pyximport statement shows us we can bypass compilation and simply import .pyx files as if it was normal Python. Finally, I ended the chapter with a step-by-step demonstration of my process in embedding Python into Tmux. In the next chapter, we will see debugging in action using gdb, and some caveats in using Cython.