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Python High Performance, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Dr. Gabriele Lanaro

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Python High Performance, Second Edition

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By: Dr. Gabriele Lanaro

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Overview of this book

Python is a versatile language that has found applications in many industries. The clean syntax, rich standard library, and vast selection of third-party libraries make Python a wildly popular language. Python High Performance is a practical guide that shows how to leverage the power of both native and third-party Python libraries to build robust applications. The book explains how to use various profilers to find performance bottlenecks and apply the correct algorithm to fix them. The reader will learn how to effectively use NumPy and Cython to speed up numerical code. The book explains concepts of concurrent programming and how to implement robust and responsive applications using Reactive programming. Readers will learn how to write code for parallel architectures using Tensorflow and Theano, and use a cluster of computers for large-scale computations using technologies such as Dask and PySpark. By the end of the book, readers will have learned to achieve performance and scale from their Python applications.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Benchmarking and Profiling

Designing your application

Writing tests and benchmarks

Better tests and benchmarks with pytest-benchmark

Finding bottlenecks with cProfile

Profile line by line with line_profiler

Optimizing our code

The dis module

Profiling memory usage with memory_profiler

Summary

Pure Python Optimizations

Useful algorithms and data structures

Caching and memoization

Comprehensions and generators

Summary

Fast Array Operations with NumPy and Pandas

Getting started with NumPy

Rewriting the particle simulator in NumPy

Reaching optimal performance with numexpr

Pandas

Summary

C Performance with Cython

Compiling Cython extensions

Adding static types

Sharing declarations

Working with arrays

Particle simulator in Cython

Profiling Cython

Using Cython with Jupyter

Summary

Exploring Compilers

Numba

The PyPy project

Other interesting projects

Summary

Implementing Concurrency

Asynchronous programming

The asyncio framework

Reactive programming

Summary

Parallel Processing

Introduction to parallel programming

Using multiple processes

Parallel Cython with OpenMP

Automatic parallelism

Summary

Distributed Processing

Introduction to distributed computing

Dask

Using PySpark

Scientific computing with mpi4py

Summary

Designing for High Performance

Choosing a suitable strategy

Organizing your source code

Isolation, virtual environments, and containers

Continuous integration

Summary

Working with arrays

Numerical and high performance calculations often make use of arrays. Cython provides an easy way to interact with them, using directly low-level C arrays, or the more general typed memoryviews.

C arrays and pointers

C arrays are a collection of items of the same type, stored contiguously in memory. Before digging into the details, it is helpful to understand (or review) how memory is managed in C.

Variables in C are like containers. When creating a variable, a space in memory is reserved to store its value. For example, if we create a variable containing a 64 bit floating point number (double), the program will allocate 64 bit (16 bytes) of memory. This portion of memory can be accessed through an address to that memory location.

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