Vishal Kanaujia and I presented a talk on ‘Diving into Byte-code optimization in Python’ at SciPy conference held at IIT Bombay from 04-07 Dec 11.
Agenda of the talk:
- Python Virtual Machine: internals
- Reverse engineering: Python byte code (“pyc” files)
- Exploring Python dis-assembler for pyc
- Optimizing python byte code for time-efficiency
- Peephole optimization
- Tweaking the Python VM
- Does PyPy helps?
Slides of the presentation can be found Diving into Byte-code optimization in Python
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