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Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news?

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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:29 PM, John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I'm revisiting a project that I haven't touched in over a year.  It was written in Python 2.6, and executed on 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10.  I experienced a 20% performance increase when I used Psyco, because I had a computationally-intensive routine which occupied most of my CPU cycles, and always received the same data type.  (Multiprocessing also helped, and I was using that too.)
>
> I guess I can live with the 20% slower execution, but sometimes my code would run for three solid days...

Two things to try, in order:

1) Can you optimize your algorithms? Three days of processing is... a LOT.

2) Rewrite some key portions in C, possibly using Cython (as MRAB suggested).

You may well find that you don't actually need to make any
language-level changes. If there's some critical mathematical function
that already exists in C, making use of it might make all the
difference you need.

ChrisA

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JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-04 19:29 -0700
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-04-05 03:39 +0100
    Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 01:34 -0700
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 14:37 -0400
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 11:23 +0100
    Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 01:34 -0700
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 19:27 +1100
    Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 01:39 -0700
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 19:49 +1100
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 11:32 -0600
        Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 11:13 -0700
          Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 13:05 -0600
        Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 11:13 -0700
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 10:46 +0100
    Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-04-05 01:39 -0700
      Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? ptb <petertbrady@gmail.com> - 2013-04-05 05:18 -0700
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Ian Foote <ian@feete.org> - 2013-04-05 13:50 +0100
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 11:27 +0100
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-04-06 08:45 -0700
  Re: JIT compilers for Python, what is the latest news? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-04-06 21:41 +0200

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