Tag Archives: PyPy

Need for Speed

Posted on July 15, 2011 by

When writing code for scientific computation, you often need to improve its performance, i.e. to make it run faster and/or more efficiently in terms of memory and other resource usage. I will summarize several techniques to speed up Python code … Continue reading →

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What is PyPy?

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

You might have heard about PyPy, that it is an implementation of Python in Python, and that it can run Python programs faster than CPython. Then you might ask: How the hell is that possible? CPython runs Python programs slower … Continue reading →

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