Fast Python? Don't Bother

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Copyright © 2016 Russel Winder 7 Python is… ● A dynamically typed (or not) language. ● Quite popular, in data science, and data visualisation. ● Quite popular for sys. admin. ● Quite popular for Web-y stuff. ● Having it’s development driven by IDEs. Type signatures.

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Copyright © 2016 Russel Winder 33 Parallel Processing ● Threads and thread pools: – C – but very low level. – C++ – better than C. – Java: Akka, Quasar, Hadoop, Apache Spark, GPars. – D – actors and data parallelism. ● Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS): – Chapel – X10 There are man, many more: Pony, Nim, etc.