Archives of High Performance Python Book

Second PyDataLondon Meetup a Javascript/Analystic-tastic event

This week we ran our 2nd PyDataLondon meetup (@PyDataLondon), we had 70 in the room and a rather techy set of talks. As before we hosted by Pivotal (@gopivotal) via Ian – many thanks for the beer and pizza! I took everyone to the pub after for a beer on out  data science consultancy to […]
10 years ago

High Performance Python manuscript submitted to O’Reilly

I’m super-happy to say that Micha and I have submitted the manuscript to O’Reilly for our High Performance Python book. Here’s the final chapter list: Understanding Performant Python Profiling to find bottlenecks (%timeit, cProfile, line_profiler, memory_profiler, heapy and more) Lists and Tuples (how they work under the hood) Dictionaries and Sets (under the hood again) […]
11 years ago

7 chapters of “High Performance Python” now live

O’Reilly have just released another update to our High Performance Python book, in total we’ve now released the following: Understanding Performance Python Profiling to find bottlenecks (%timeit, cProfile, line_profiler, memory_profiler, heapy) Lists and Tuples Dictionaries and Sets Iterators and Generators Matrix and Vector Computation (numpy and scipy) Compiling to C (Cython, Shed Skin, Pythran, Numba, […]
11 years ago

New High Performance Python chapters online & teaching a 2 day course on HPC

The last month has been crazy busy, not least because I got to run my first High Performance Python 2 day tutorial at a university. I was out in Aalborg University teaching a PhD group, we covered four blocks: Profiling (CPU and RAM) Compilers and JITs Multi-core and distributed Using less RAM, storage systems and […]
11 years ago

2nd Early Release of High Performance Python (we added a chapter)

Here’s a quick book update – we just released a second Early Release of High Performance Python which adds a chapter on lists, tuples, dictionaries and sets. This is available to anyone who has bought it already (login into O’Reilly to get the update). Shortly we’ll follow with chapters on Matrices and the Multiprocessing module. […]
11 years ago

High Performance Book almost ready for Early Release preview

Our first few chapters of High Performance Python are nearly ready for the Early Release on O’Reilly’s platform, we’ll be releasing: Understanding Performance Python (an overview of the virtual machine and modern PC hardware) Profiling Python Code (for CPU and RAM profiling, lots of options) Pure Python (generators, the guts of dicts and the like) […]
11 years ago

High Performance Python at PyDataLondon 2014

Yesterday I spoke on The High Performance Python Landscape at PyDataLondon 2014 (our first PyData outside of the USA – see my write-up). I was blessed with a full room and interesting questions. With Micha I’m authoring a High Performance Python book with O’Reilly (email list for early access) and I took the topics from […]
11 years ago

Installing the numpy module in PyPy

Working on the High Performance Python book (mailing list here for our occasional announces) I’ve reinstalled PyPy a couple of times, each time I forget how to install the numpy module. Note that PyPy’s numpy is different and much smaller than CPython’s numpy. It does however work for smaller problems if you just need some […]
11 years ago

Progress on High Performance Python book

I figured a short update was in order. Micha (@mynameisfiber, github) and I are progressing on our High Performance Python book, we have a proposed chapter outline below and hope to have a rough cut of some early chapters for January. The book should be finalised ‘earlier in 2014’ though we won’t be drawn on […]
11 years ago
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