Codon is a high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python
code to native machine code without any runtime overhead. Typical
speedups over Python are on the order of 100x or more, on a single
thread. Codon supports native multithreading which can lead to
speedups many times higher still.
The Codon framework is fully modular and extensible, allowing for
the seamless integration of new modules, compiler optimizations,
domain-specific languages and so on. We actively develop Codon
extensions for a number of domains such as bioinformatics and
quantitative finance.