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HPy: The Future of Python Native Extensions

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HPy: The Future of Python Native Extensions
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Updating Python versions often forces us to update native extensions at the same time. But what if you need to update Python because of a security issue, but cannot (yet) move to a newer version of a dependency? Or you are running a proprietary binary extension that cannot easily be recompiled? The HPy project provides a better C extension API for Python. It compiles to binaries that work across all versions of CPython, PyPy, GraalPy. HPy makes porting from the existing C API easy and its design ensures that the binaries we produce today stay binary compatible with future Python versions. NumPy is the single largest direct user of the CPython C API we know of. After over 2 years of work and more than 30k lines of code ported, we can demonstrate NumPy running its tests and benchmarks with HPy. We will show the same NumPy binary run on multiple CPython versions and GraalPy. And we will discuss performance characteristics of this port across CPython, GraalPy, and PyPy.