Tag: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Exploiting the power of multi-core for scientific computing in Python

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: Understanding the big data problem in scientific compution A good design strategy for developing applications Python with Multi-cores threading GIL impact multiprocessing Pros and Cons Beyond CPython GIL free … Continue reading Exploiting the power of multi-core for scientific computing in Python →

Diving into Byte-code optimization in Python

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 … Continue reading Diving into Byte-code optimization in Python →