Monday, August 25, 2014

Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

"It boils down to Python being a dynamically typed, interpreted language, where values are stored not in dense buffers but in scattered objects. And then I talk about how to get around this by using NumPy, SciPy, and related tools for vectorization of operations and calling into compiled code, and go on from there."

Full article: http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/

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