On Big Computation and Python

Slides from my PyConUK 2017 session. It's about using a polyglot approach to code that has CPU heavy bits. The slides are more or less useless really you probably want to watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6XBaGwetY

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1. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 1 On Big Computation and Python Russel Winder russel@winder.org.uk https://www.russel.org.uk @russel_winder
2. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 2 Preface
3. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 3 ACCU conference used to have a Python track. https://conference.accu.org
4. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 4
5. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 5
6. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 6 2017, 10 years since the frst PyCon UK There have been 8.
7. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 7
8. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 8 Introduction
9. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 9 This is really part two of My PyConUK 2016 presentation.
10. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 10 Summarise
11. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 11 Polyglot Programming • Python • C • C++ • Rust • D • Chapel
12. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 12 We need a problem…
13. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 13 by Quadrature π
14. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 14 Need a small problem more like a real problem.
15. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 15 by Monte Carlo π
16. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 16 π 4
17. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 17 Code
18. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 18 Conclusion
19. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 19 Native code is good for Big Computation.
20. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 20 It’s all about the parallel iterators.
21. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 21 Do not be afraid of polyglot.
22. Copyright © 2017 Russel Winder 22 On Big Computation and Python Russel Winder russel@winder.org.uk https://www.russel.org.uk @russel_winder