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> **What is the goal of Codon?**
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One of the main focuses of Codon is to bridge the gap between usability
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and performance. Codon aims to make writing high-performance software
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substantially easier, and to provide a common, unified framework for the
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development of such software across a range of domains.
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> **I want to use Codon, but I have a large Python codebase I don't want to port.**
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You can use Codon on a per-function basis via the `@codon` annotation, which
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can be used within Python codebases. This will compile only the annotated functions
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and automatically handle data conversions to and from Codon. It also allows for
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the use of any Codon-specific modules or extensions.
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> **How does Codon compare to other Python implementations?**
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Unlike many other performance-oriented Python implementations, such as
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PyPy or Numba, Codon is a standalone system implemented entirely
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independently of regular Python or any dynamic runtime, and therefore has
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far greater flexibility to generate optimized code. In fact, Codon will
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frequently generate the same code as that from an equivalent C or C++ program.
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This design choice also allows Codon to circumvent issues like Python's global
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interpretter lock, and thereby to take full advantage of parallelism and multithreading.
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> **What about interoperability with other languages and frameworks?**
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Interoperability is and will continue to be a priority for the Codon
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project. We don't want using Codon to render you unable to use all the
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other great frameworks and libraries that exist. Codon supports full
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interoperability with Python and C/C++.
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