Here I will discuss usages of Numba and NumPy's ctypes interface and compare them with each other and also with a pure Python example.

This is an expanded version of my talk @ SciPy 2016, adapted from the slides of the talk and scripts edited suitable for a blog post.

For various reasons we sometimes need to use C or C++ libraries inside a Python program. Here we will discuss both cases using one of my projects as an example.