Python 3.6 & Performance. A Love Story

Slides from Why Python 3.6 is faster than Python 3.5 talk. Also included a preview of new features of Python 3.6

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1. Python 3.6 & Python 3.6 & Performance Performance A Love Story A Love Story Igor Davydenko 2017, PyCon Belarus
2. I am... I am... Igor Davydenko Igor Davydenko Python & React.js developer at EVO Company From Kyiv, Ukraine Love Python 3, asyncio & aio stack Use Python 3.6 in production Personal Site @ GitHub @ Twi er
3. Python 3.6 Python 3.6 What's new? What's new?
4. PEP 498 PEP 498: f-strings : f-strings name = 'Igor' country = 'Belarus' f"Hi, {country}! I'm {name}"
5. PEP 525 PEP 525: Async generators : Async generators async def coro(): for item in range(10): yield item async def main(): async for item in coro(): ...
6. PEP 530 PEP 530: Async comprehensions : Async comprehensions data = [item async for item in fetch_data()] data_gen = (item async for item in fetch_data())
7. PEP 526 PEP 526: Variable annotations : Variable annotations from typing import Any, Dict, List data: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [] key: str # No initial value class Validator(object): data: Dict[str, Any] = {}
8. And more… And more… number = 1_000_000 aka underscores in numeric literals New secrets module os.PathLike aka file system path protocol PYTHONMALLOC var & DTrace probing support Simpler metaclasses & enhancements to descriptors Local Time Disambiguation Change Windows filesystem/console encoding to UTF-8 New dict implementation And even more…
9. Python & Performance Python & Performance
10. The Problem The Problem Why to switch to Python 3 if it slower than Python 2? Plus there is a PyPy
11. Acceptance Acceptance We understand that Python 3 is slow We need a tool to compare Python 2 / Python 3 performance We don't need to enforce benchmark-driven-developmen
12. perf perf perf.readthedocs.io Toolkit to write, run, analyze & modify benchmarks Store results in JSON Has tool to display, compare, analyze and modify benchmark results Includes statistical tools to analyze the distribution of results
13. perf perf $ python3 -m perf compare_to 2016-11-03_15-36-2.7-91f024fc9b3a.json.gz 2016-11-03_15-38-3.6-c4319c0d0131.json.gz -G --min-speed=5 Slower (40): - python_startup: 7.74 ms +- 0.28 ms -> 26.9 ms +- 0.6 ms: 3.47x slower - python_startup_no_site: 4.43 ms +- 0.08 ms -> 10.4 ms +- 0.4 ms: 2.36x slower - ... Faster (15): - telco: 707 ms +- 22 ms -> 22.1 ms +- 0.4 ms: 32.04x faster - unpickle_list: 15.0 us +- 0.3 us -> 7.86 us +- 0.16 us: 1.90x faster - ... Benchmark hidden because not significant (8): 2to3, dulwich_log, nbody, pidigits, regex_dna, tornado_http, unpack_sequence, unpickle Ignored benchmarks (3) of 2016-11-03_15-36-2.7-91f024fc9b3a.json: hg_startup, pyflate, spambayes
14. python/performance python/performance speed.python.org Authirative source of benchmarks for all Python implementations Focus on real-world benchmarks, rather than synthetic benchmarks pyperformance will run Student's two-tailed T test on the benchmark results at the 95% confidence level to indicate whether the observed difference is statistically is statistically significant significant
15. python/performance python/performance Examples django_template: use the Django template system to build a 150x150-cell HTML table dulwich_log: Iterate on commits of the asyncio Git repository using the Dulwich module hexiom: Solver of Hexiom board game (level 25 by default) sqlalchemy_declarative: SQLAlchemy Declarative benchmark using SQLite telco: Benchmark the decimal module tornado_http: Benchmark HTTP server of the tornado module
16. Performance Trends Performance Trends Python 2.7 is still fastest Python Python 3.5 much faster Python 3.4 Python 3.6 faster Python 3.5 Python 3.7 has some significant improvements already
17. Python 2.7 vs Python 3.5 Python 2.7 vs Python 3.5
18. Python 2.7 vs Python 3.6 Python 2.7 vs Python 3.6
19. Python 3.5 vs Python 3.6 Python 3.5 vs Python 3.6
20. Python 3.5 vs Python 3.6 Python 3.5 vs Python 3.6
21. Python 3.6 Python 3.6 Performance Improvements Performance Improvements
22. Asyncio Improvements Asyncio Improvements asyncio.Future now has an optimized C implementation asyncio.Task now has an optimized C implementation Python Future & Task | C Future & Py Task | C Future & C Task 23K req/s | 26K | 30K | ~10-15% boost | ~15% A er optimizations uvloop start working faster up to 5% as well
23. String & Bytes Improvements String & Bytes Improvements ASCII decoder for surrogateescape, ignore and replace up to 60 times faster ASCII & Latin-1 encoder for surrogateescape up to 3 times faster UTF-8 decoder for error handlers up to 75 times faster UTF-8 encoder for error handlers up to 15 times faster bytes % args / bytearray % args up to 5 times faster More optimizations for bytes.fromhex(), bytearray.fromhex() & bytes.replace(...), bytearray.replace(...) methods
24. Glob Improvements Glob Improvements Optimized glob() and iglob() functions; up to 6 times faster Optimized globbing in pathlib; up to 4 times faster Optimization gained by using os.scandir() introduced in Python 3.5
25. New New dict dict implementation implementation dict type now using "compact" representation First implemented in PyPy The memory usage of the new dict() is between 20% and 25% smaller compared to 3.5
26. New New dict dict implementation implementation Preserving class a ribute definition order Preserving keyword argument order data = {'a': 1, 'b': 2} data['c'] = 3 assert str(data) == "{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}"
27. New New dict dict implementation implementation curr_size = 24 * t new_size = 24 * n + sizeof(index) * t
28. New New dict dict implementation implementation data = {'one': 'один', 'two': 'два', 'three': 'три'} # Before entries = [['--', '--', '--'], [-8522787127447073495, 'two', 'два'], ['--', '--', '--'], ['--', '--', '--'], ['--', '--', '--'], [-9092791511155847987, 'one', 'один'], ['--', '--', '--'], [-6480567542315338377, 'three', 'три']]
29. New New dict dict implementation implementation data = {'one': 'один', 'two': 'два', 'three': 'три'} # After indices = [None, 1, None, None, None, 0, None, 2] entries = [[-9092791511155847987, 'one', 'один'], [-8522787127447073495, 'two', 'два'], [-6480567542315338377, 'three', 'три']]
30. Few other things Few other things Optimization of passing keyword arguments, comparing to passing positional arguments picke.load() & picke.loads() up to 10% faster on many small objects Various implementation improvements in typing module xml.etree.ElementTree parsing, iteration and deepcopy improvements Creation of fractions.Fraction from floats and decimals up to 3 times faster
31. Conclusion? Conclusion?
32. Python 3.6 Python 3.6 is faster than is faster than Python 3.5 Python 3.5
33. Python 3.7 Python 3.7 will be faster than will be faster than Python 3.6 Python 3.6
34. Questions? Questions? Twi er: Twi er: @playpausenstop @playpausenstop GitHub: GitHub: @playpauseandstop @playpauseandstop