Is Codon compatible with all existing Python packages?

[hi-one-gg]

Other Python acceleration libraries like CPython or Numba have been quite difficult and limited to use because they are not compatible with libraries such as OpenCV or Matplotlib.
However, after reading Codon’s README, it seems that Codon is compatible with all of these libraries.

Is it really possible to use Codon together with existing libraries like OpenCV, Natsort, PyTorch, and Transformers?
If that’s true, I’ll start adopting Codon in all of my projects.

Thank you so much for developing such an incredible open-source project!

[arshajii]

Hi @hi-one-gg -- yes Codon can be used with/alongside any Python package via its Python interoperability support. You can either import and use Python packages in Codon, or use Codon as a JIT within a larger Python project that's already using other packages. More info at https://docs.exaloop.io/integrations/python/python-from-codon/. Note that Codon won't compile/accelerate these packages; they'll still run in plain Python but Codon can be used alongside them. Hope that helps!

[hi-one-gg]

@arshajii
Thank you very much for your response. I've actually seen the link you provided before. From what I read below, I understood that Codon executes existing Python packages via CPython’s C API, which in turn means that it’s optimized. Is my understanding incorrect?