Bitey: Import LLVM bitcode directly into Python

I very much like the concept. But I dislike the "magic" feel of overloading "import". Especially as it creates namespace collisions, eg when you have python module and object file with same name. Imho something like "bitey.import_obj(name)" would have been nice and more clear.<p>I wonder how complicated it would be to parse header files to populate field names of structs automatically? Maintaining separate .pre.py and .h files seems like recipe for trouble.

I'll be interested to see how this compares to numba and how easy it is to fit it into the scientific python ecosystem. I'm also curious about performance versus numba and my current go to solution, cython.

What about performance? Is there any benchmark for a function compared with pure python and C implementation?

"I call the big one Bitey."

Very cool ! Can't wait to test it ! Why exactly no C++ support ?

It seems cool but why would you use it instead of having a c lib (or c obj file) interfaced with ctypes or swig ... ? Maybe I miss what LLVM brings ? Thanks

So can you use this with C functions compiled normally with gcc? It seems like that would be even more useful.

I could be completely wrong here, but doesn't this completely bypass the optimizer that makes C so fast?