July 2016
Beginner to intermediate
462 pages
9h 14m
English
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Chapter 12. Parallelism and Performance
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Just-in-time compiling with Numba
- Speeding up numerical expressions with Numexpr
- Running multiple threads with the
threadingmodule - Launching multiple tasks with the
concurrent.futuresmodule - Accessing resources asynchronously with the
asynciomodule - Distributed processing with
execnet - Profiling memory usage
- Calculating the mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis on the fly
- Caching with a least recently used cache
- Caching HTTP requests
- Streaming counting with the Count-min sketch
- Harnessing the power of the GPU with OpenCL
Introduction
The ENIAC, built between 1943 and 1946, filled a large room with eighteen thousand tubes and had a 20-bit memory. We have come a long ...