Docs on speeding up Python code?
Jeremy Jones
zanesdad at bellsouth.net
Tue Sep 2 11:59:40 EDT 2003
* Andreas Neudecker (a.neudecker at uni-bonn.de) wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have seen some discussions going on about making Python code faster
> and several measures looked fairly 'esoteric' to me (i.e.: you need to
> know a lot of background things to even KNOW about these possibilities).
>
> Is there anywhere a concise Howto, article, PEP, whatever that describes
> possible measures to make Python code faster (and probably 'cleaner',
> too)? And possibly in a way, that a beginner or intermediate Python user
> can understand? ;-)
>
> If you know of any such docs, I would be happy if you could post some links.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Andreas
One link that has helped me out is http://manatee.mojam.com/~skip/python/fastpython.html. I got a considerable performance boost on a parser that I wrote by following his suggestions (specifically doing things over and over and the use of the profiler).
HTH
Jeremy Jones
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