About Python-based libraries for Processing

Processing Development
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  • Unfortunately Jython isn’t optimized like other JVM languages.
  • All Jython object properties are as if they were Java volatile fields.
  • Everything in Jython is an object. No primitive datatypes like Java.
  • We can do some workarounds like temporarily caching everything as local variables for example.
  • But even so the performance gap compared to a native Java (and even some other JVM languages) code is gonna be noticeable.
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