April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
14h 43m
English
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- %memit, Using memory_profiler to Diagnose Memory Usage, Iterators and Generators, Objects for Primitives Are Expensive, Understanding the RAM Used in a Collection
- %timeit function, Simple Approaches to Timing—print and a Decorator, Different Approaches, Different Complexity, There’s More Than One (and Possibly a Faster) Way to Do a Job
- 1D diffusion, Introduction to the Problem-Introduction to the Problem
- 2D diffusion, Introduction to the Problem-Problems with Allocating Too Much, Dynamic Graphs: PyTorch-Dynamic Graphs: PyTorch
- (see also foreign function interfaces)
- 32-bit floats, When to Use Each Technology
- 64-bit Python, Python 3
- >> (jump points), Using the dis Module to Examine CPython Bytecode
- @fasteners.interprocess_locked decorator, File Locking
- @jit decorator, Numba, Numba (2020), A Simple Example
- @njit decorator alias, Best Practices and Recommendations
- @profile decorator, Using memory_profiler to Diagnose Memory Usage, Combining CPU and Memory Profiling with Scalene
- @require decorator, Using IPython Parallel to Support Research
- Σ (sigma) character, Bytes Versus Unicode
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- abs function, Why Does Type Information Help the Code Run Faster?, Adding Some Type Annotations-Adding Some Type Annotations, Cython and numpy
- abstraction, Python’s Virtual Machine
- Accelerate library, Sharing numpy Data with multiprocessing
- acceptance tests, Testing frameworks
- acquire, Locking a Value
- Aho-Corasick string-matching algorithm, High Performance Real-Time String Matching
- AI Acceleration, GPU Speed and ...
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