Python High Performance - Second Edition

Choosing a suitable strategy

Many packages are available for improving the performance of programs, but how do we determine the best optimization strategy for our program? A variety of factors dictate the decision on which method to use. In this section, we will try to answer this question as comprehensively as possible, based on broad application categories. 

The first aspect to take into consideration is the type of application. Python is a language that serves multiple and very diverse communities that span web services, system scripting, games, machine learning, and much more. Those different applications will require optimization efforts for different parts of the program.

For example, a web service can be optimized to have a very short ...