There are two parts to PyAMF: the core AMF encoder and decoder, and the gateway/remoting for transporting data between a server and a client.
Currently both parts are written in pure Python but the idea is to create a C version of the AMF encoder/decoder that can be used as a dropin which will increase performance significantly.
For more information check the ticket or browse the source in the repository.
It’s possibly useful in an “introducing…” post to include describing what “AMF” might possibly be
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@wes: thanks for catching that, I updated the post and also removed the references to Cython because we decided to go for a pure C implementation, which is now available in the trunk.