Libpython-clj with Chris Nuernberger and Panthera with Alan Marazzi - Scicloj meeting 4

Python interop -- Scicloj meeting video, and ways to get involved Hi. Just realized that, somehow, the video of the Scicloj meeting about Python interop has not been shared here. So, here it is. To me, it was fascinating. Probably, anyone who is interested in bridges across technologies would find that discussion helpful. Even though our next web meetings will be mostly about other topics, we keep discussing Python interop on other channels, and it will surely be central to a lot of what we plan for the following few months. In my opinion, there is a beautiful opportunity here -- a lot of stuff has become feasible. As Carin Meier recently twitted, many conversations have changed from "N…

> I haven't checked exactly how libpython-clj works There is a recent web meeting where they explain all that, to include zero-copy API (or minimal marshaling by default). I think the library readme talks about it as well, although the author goes into detail and rationale during the vid. >The overhead will be too big. What is the empirical overhead for dispatching through a python interpreter to a C-library to execute a foreign call from JNI? Maybe there are contexts (perhaps many) where this is trivial. If that interpreter is bound as a long-running resource....then the overhead for starting the interpreter (vs. a naive start-one-every-call) seems like another non-issue. Now you'…