How to use C++ Compiled Python for Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce (Hadoop)
http://atbrox.com/2009/10/07/how-to-use-c-compiled-python-for-amazons-elastic-mapreduce-hadoop/
Sometimes it can be useful to compile Python code for Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce into C++ and then into a binary. The motivation for that could be to integrate with (existing) C or C++ code, or increase performance for CPU-intensive mapper or reducer methods. Here follows a description how to do that:
Based on Shedskin
