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		iskander on Sept 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python ... Why did you guys choose to compile through Numba rather than directly to LLVM or C?

vtuulos on Sept 28, 2013 [–]

Numba was just the fastest way to get it working. LLVM(py) is very low-level. C is still an option but Numba made interfacing with a no-brainer.

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