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Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

posted by n1 on Tuesday May 13 2014, @01:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-dark-in-here dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

We all know that python is slower than compiled languages like C. But what can you do about it? Jake VanderPlas, director of research in the physical sciences for the university of Washington's eScience institute, digs into python's internals to explain how it works and what program design choices you can make to use python efficiently.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by skullz on Tuesday May 13 2014, @04:39PM

    by skullz (2532) on Tuesday May 13 2014, @04:39PM (#42799)

    This really is the largest problem with the CPython implementation. The JIL doesn't exist in Jython and I don't think in IronPython (.NET) but lingers on in the C interpreter.

    The Multiprocessing package gets around this by spawning a real live Python process and then lets the OS handle the parallelism and that works very well. Python doesn't yet have a nice proper threading package without the lock.

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