Author: Antonio Cuni <anto.c...@gmail.com>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r4840:2a3bbf1385ee
Date: 2012-10-06 16:21 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/2a3bbf1385ee/
Log: merge
diff --git a/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-6.rst
b/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-6.rst
--- a/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-6.rst
+++ b/blog/draft/py3k-status-update-6.rst
@@ -4,20 +4,20 @@
This is the sixth status update about our work on the `py3k branch`_, which we
can work on thanks to all of the people who donated_ to the `py3k proposal`_.
-The coolest new is not about what we did in the past weeks, but what we will
-do in the next: I am pleased to announce that Philip Jenvey has been selected
-to be funded for his upcoming work on py3k, thanks to your generous
-donations. He will start to work on it shortly, and he will surely help the
-branch to make faster progress. I am also particularly happy of this because
-Philip is the first non-core developer who is getting paid with donations: he
-demonstrated over the past months to be able to work effectively on PyPy, and
-so we were happy to approve his application for the job. This means that
-everyone can be potentially selected in the future, the only strict
-requirement is prove to be able to work on PyPy by contributing to the
-project.
+The coolest news is not about what we did in the past weeks, but what we will
+do in the next: I am pleased to announce that `Philip Jenvey`_ has been
+selected by the PyPy communitiy to be funded for his upcoming work on py3k,
+thanks to your generous donations. He will start to work on it shortly, and he
+will surely help the branch to make faster progress. I am also particularly
+happy of this because Philip is the first non-core developer who is getting
+paid with donations: he demonstrated over the past months to be able to work
+effectively on PyPy, and so we were happy to approve his application for the
+job. This means that anyone can potentially be selected in the future, the
+only strict requirement is to have a deep interest in working on PyPy and to
+prove to be able to do so by contributing to the project.
Back to the status of the branch. Most of the work since the last status
-update has been done in the area of, guess what?, unicode strings. As usual,
+update has been done in the area of, guess what? Unicode strings. As usual,
this is one of the most important changes between Python 2 and Python 3, so
it's not surprising. The biggest news is that now PyPy internally supports
unicode identifiers (such as names of variables, functions, attributes, etc.),
@@ -40,20 +40,28 @@
operator) and the methods ``.encode/.decode('utf-8')``.
Other than that there is the usual list of smaller issues and bugs that got
-fixed, such as: teach the compiler when to emit the new opcode
-``DELETE_DEREF`` (and implement it!); detect when we use spaces and TABs
-inconsistently in the source code, as CPython does; fix yet another bug
-related to the new lexically scoped exceptions (this is the last one,
-hopefully); port some of the changes that we did to the standard CPython 2.7
-tests to 3.2, to mark those which are implementation details and should not be
-run on PyPy.
+fixed, including (but not limited to):
-Finally, I would like to thanks Amaury and Ariel Ben-Yehuda for his work on
-the branch; among other things, Amaury recently worked on ``cpyext`` and on
-the PyPy ``_cffi_backend``, while Ariel submitted a patch to implement `PEP
-3138`.
+ - teach the compiler when to emit the new opcode ``DELETE_DEREF`` (and
+ implement it!)
+
+ - detect when we use spaces and TABs inconsistently in the source code, as
+ CPython does
+
+ - fix yet another bug related to the new lexically scoped exceptions (this
+ is the last one, hopefully)
+
+ - port some of the changes that we did to the standard CPython 2.7 tests to
+ 3.2, to mark those which are implementation details and should not be run
on
+ PyPy
+
+Finally, I would like to thank Amaury Forgeot d'Arc and Ariel Ben-Yehuda for
+their work on the branch; among other things, Amaury recently worked on
+``cpyext`` and on the PyPy ``_cffi_backend``, while Ariel submitted a patch to
+implement `PEP 3138`.
.. _donated:
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2012/01/py3k-and-numpy-first-stage-thanks-to.html
.. _`py3k proposal`: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html
.. _`py3k branch`: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/py3k
.. _`PEP 3138`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3138/
+.. _`Philip Jenvey`: https://twitter.com/pjenvey
diff --git a/talk/confoo2013/abstract_hippy.rst
b/talk/confoo2013/abstract_hippy.rst
--- a/talk/confoo2013/abstract_hippy.rst
+++ b/talk/confoo2013/abstract_hippy.rst
@@ -2,18 +2,9 @@
How I created a proof-of-concept PHP interpreter in 2 months.
=============================================================
-HipPy is a proof of concept PHP VM developed as a research effort sponsored
-by Facebook using PyPy. After two months, while not production ready,
-it implements enough of the PHP language to run shootout benchmarks, without
-compromising PHP semantics. It's also very fast - over 2x faster than hiphop,
-a compiler from PHP to C++ developed by Facebook.
+HipPy is a proof of concept PHP VM developed as a research effort sponsored by
Facebook using PyPy. After two months, while not production ready, it
implements enough of the PHP language to run shootout benchmarks, without
compromising PHP semantics. It's also very fast - over 2x faster than hiphop, a
compiler from PHP to C++ developed by Facebook.
NOTES TO ORGANIZERS:
-PyPy is not only a python interpreter but also a toolchain for creating dynamic
-language virtual machines. In the past we developed a Prolog VM,
-a scheme VM and some others. Laurence Tratt developed a new VM for
-the converge language which outperformed the C implementation.
-I'm going to present how easy it is to use PyPy than implementing a VM
-by hand.
+PyPy is not only a python interpreter but also a toolchain for creating
dynamic language virtual machines. In the past we developed a Prolog VM, a
scheme VM and some others. Laurence Tratt developed a new VM for the converge
language which outperformed the C implementation. I'm going to present how easy
it is to use PyPy than implementing a VM by hand.
diff --git a/talk/confoo2013/abstract_pypy.rst
b/talk/confoo2013/abstract_pypy.rst
--- a/talk/confoo2013/abstract_pypy.rst
+++ b/talk/confoo2013/abstract_pypy.rst
@@ -2,17 +2,9 @@
PyPy - the fastest Python interpreter
=============================================
-The PyPy project has recently gathered a lot of attention for its
-progress in speeding up the Python language -- it is the fastest,
-most compatible and most stable 'alternative´ Python interpreter. No
-longer merely a research curiosity, PyPy is now suitable for production
-use. I would like to present PyPy, its current status and it' near future
goals.
+The PyPy project has recently gathered a lot of attention for its progress in
speeding up the Python language. It is the fastest, most compatible and most
stable 'alternative´ Python interpreter. No longer merely a research,
PyPy is now suitable for production use. I would like to present PyPy, its
current status and it's near future goals.
NOTES TO ORGANIZERS:
-I've been PyPy core developer since 2006 and presenting PyPy to wider audience
-since 2007. I've been to conferences all over the world, speaking about PyPy
-and other Python topics. This talk will hopefully introduce the conference
-audience to what PyPy is, how to use it in your code and what benefits can
-you expect.
+I've been PyPy core developer since 2006 and presenting PyPy to wider audience
since 2007. I've been to conferences all over the world, speaking about PyPy
and other Python topics. This talk will hopefully introduce the conference
audience to what PyPy is, how to use it in your code and what benefits can you
expect.
diff --git a/talk/pycon2013/abstract_fijal.rst
b/talk/pycon2013/abstract_fijal.rst
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pycon2013/abstract_fijal.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Speeding up existing code using PyPy
+====================================
+
+Brief outline:
+
+I spent quite some time profiling existing python programs under PyPy.
+This talk will walk through an existing Python library (undecided which yet)
+and showcase how to write benchmarks, how to find bottlenecks, how to analyze
+them and how to improve them when running on the PyPy interpreter and what
+are the theoretical and pracitcal limits.
+
+Detailed abstract:
+
+In this talk I would like to share my experience when optimizing existing
+Python codebases. I spend copious amounts of time staring at profiling data,
+improving profilers to see anything and improving PyPy to work better
+on real-life workloads. I would like to give the audience insight what
+sort of constructs are optimized by PyPy, what sort of constructs can
+possibly be optimized and which ones are out of question. This talk is
+an intermediate one and assumes good enough knowledge of Python to understand
+code of a given library (Twisted, Django, Flask, Gunicorn and some stdlib
+module are potential candidates), however no prior knowledge of PyPy or
+the processor performance characteristics is necessary.
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/Makefile b/talk/pyconza2012/Makefile
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+
+talk.pdf: talk.rst author.latex title.latex stylesheet.latex
+ rst2beamer.py --stylesheet=stylesheet.latex --documentoptions=14pt
--output-encoding=utf-8 talk.rst talk.latex || exit
+ sed 's/\\date{}/\\input{author.latex}/' -i talk.latex || exit
+ sed 's/\\maketitle/\\input{title.latex}/' -i talk.latex || exit
+ pdflatex talk.latex || exit
+
+view: talk.pdf
+ evince talk.pdf &
+
+xpdf: talk.pdf
+ xpdf talk.pdf &
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/author.latex b/talk/pyconza2012/author.latex
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/author.latex
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+\definecolor{rrblitbackground}{rgb}{0.0, 0.0, 0.0}
+
+\title[Python performance characteristics]{Python performance characteristics}
+\author[Maciej Fijałkowski]
+{Maciej Fijałkowski}
+
+\institute{PyCon 2012}
+\date{October 5, 2012}
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/beamerdefs.txt b/talk/pyconza2012/beamerdefs.txt
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/beamerdefs.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+.. colors
+.. ===========================
+
+.. role:: green
+.. role:: red
+
+
+.. general useful commands
+.. ===========================
+
+.. |pause| raw:: latex
+
+ \pause
+
+.. |small| raw:: latex
+
+ {\small
+
+.. |end_small| raw:: latex
+
+ }
+
+.. |scriptsize| raw:: latex
+
+ {\scriptsize
+
+.. |end_scriptsize| raw:: latex
+
+ }
+
+.. |strike<| raw:: latex
+
+ \sout{
+
+.. closed bracket
+.. ===========================
+
+.. |>| raw:: latex
+
+ }
+
+
+.. example block
+.. ===========================
+
+.. |example<| raw:: latex
+
+ \begin{exampleblock}{
+
+
+.. |end_example| raw:: latex
+
+ \end{exampleblock}
+
+
+
+.. alert block
+.. ===========================
+
+.. |alert<| raw:: latex
+
+ \begin{alertblock}{
+
+
+.. |end_alert| raw:: latex
+
+ \end{alertblock}
+
+
+
+.. columns
+.. ===========================
+
+.. |column1| raw:: latex
+
+ \begin{columns}
+ \begin{column}{0.45\textwidth}
+
+.. |column2| raw:: latex
+
+ \end{column}
+ \begin{column}{0.45\textwidth}
+
+
+.. |end_columns| raw:: latex
+
+ \end{column}
+ \end{columns}
+
+
+
+.. |snake| image:: ../img/py-web-new.png
+ :scale: 15%
+
+
+
+.. nested blocks
+.. ===========================
+
+.. |nested| raw:: latex
+
+ \begin{columns}
+ \begin{column}{0.85\textwidth}
+
+.. |end_nested| raw:: latex
+
+ \end{column}
+ \end{columns}
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/examples/alloc.py
b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/alloc.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/alloc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+
+import sys, time
+
+def f():
+ l = [None]
+ for i in xrange(int(sys.argv[1])):
+ l[0] = (i,)
+
+def g():
+ m = int(sys.argv[1])
+ l = [None] * m
+ for i in xrange(m):
+ l[i] = (i,)
+
+t0 = time.time()
+f()
+t1 = time.time()
+g()
+t2 = time.time()
+print "long living", t2 - t1, "short living", t1 - t0
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/examples/calls.py
b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/calls.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/calls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+
+import sys, time
+
+def inner(a, b, c):
+ pass
+
+def simple_call(a, b, c):
+ inner(a, b, c)
+
+def simple_call2(a, b, c):
+ inner(a, c=c, b=b)
+
+def simple_method(a, b, c):
+ c.m(a, b)
+
+def star_call(a, b, c):
+ inner(*(a, b, c))
+
+def star_call_complex(a, b, c):
+ inner(*(a, b), **{'c': c})
+
+def abomination(a, b, c):
+ inner(**locals())
+
+class A(object):
+ def m(self, a, b):
+ pass
+
+def run(func):
+ count = int(sys.argv[1])
+ t0 = time.time()
+ o = A()
+ for i in xrange(count):
+ func(i, i, o)
+ tk = time.time()
+ t = (tk - t0) / count
+ print "%s %.2e per call, %d cycles" % (func.func_name, t, int(t * 1.7e9))
+
+for f in [simple_call, simple_call2, simple_method, star_call,
star_call_complex, abomination]:
+ run(f)
+
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/examples/datastructure.py
b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/datastructure.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/datastructure.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+class View(object):
+ def __init__(self, arr, start, stop):
+ self.arr = arr
+ self.start = start
+ self.stop = stop
+
+ def __getitem__(self, item):
+ if not isinstance(item, int):
+ return NotImplemented
+ if self.start + item <= self.stop:
+ raise IndexError
+ return self.arr[self.start + item]
+
+class Wrapper(object):
+ def __init__(self, arr):
+ self.arr = arr
+
+ def __getitem__(self, item):
+ if isinstance(item, int):
+ return self.arr[item]
+ elif isinstance(item, slice):
+ if item.step != 1 or item.start < 0 or item.stop < 0:
+ raise TypeError("step not implemented")
+ return View(self.arr, item.start, item.stop)
+ return NotImplemented
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/examples/interpreter.py
b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/interpreter.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/interpreter.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+
+(LOAD_FAST, LOAD_CONST, COMPARE_OP, POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE,
+ ADD, STORE_FAST, JUMP_ABSOLUTE) = range(7)
+
+has_arg = [True, True, False, True, False, True, True]
+
+class BaseObject(object):
+ def add(left, right):
+ # try right
+ return right.radd(left)
+
+ def radd(self, left):
+ raise TypeError
+
+class Long(BaseObject):
+ pass
+
+class Integer(BaseObject):
+ def __init__(self, v):
+ self.intval = v
+
+ def add(self, right):
+ if isinstance(right, Integer):
+ try:
+ return Integer(self.intval + right.intval)
+ except OverflowError:
+ return Long(self.intval).add(Long(right.intval))
+ else:
+ return right.radd(self)
+
+def interpret(bytecode, variables, constants):
+ stack = []
+ pos = 0
+ arg0 = None
+ while True:
+ b = ord(bytecode[pos])
+ if has_arg[b]:
+ pos += 1
+ arg0 = ord(bytecode[pos])
+ if b == LOAD_FAST:
+ stack.append(variables[arg0])
+ elif b == LOAD_CONST:
+ stack.append(constants[arg0])
+ elif b == COMPARE_OP:
+ right = stack.pop()
+ left = stack.pop()
+ stack.append(left.compare(right))
+ elif b == ADD:
+ right = stack.pop()
+ left = stack.pop()
+ stack.append(left.add(right))
+ elif b == POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE:
+ val = stack.pop()
+ if not val.is_true():
+ pos = arg0
+ continue
+ elif b == STORE_FAST:
+ variables[arg0] = stack.pop()
+ elif b == JUMP_ABSOLUTE:
+ pos = arg0
+ continue
+ pos += 1
+
+
+def f(a, b):
+ return a + b
+
+stack.append(variables[arg0])
+stack.append(variables[arg0])
+right = stack.pop()
+left = stack.pop()
+stack.append(left.add(right))
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/examples/jit01.py
b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/jit01.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/examples/jit01.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+def f():
+ i = 0
+ while i < 1000000:
+ i = i + 1
+ return i
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ f()
+
diff --git a/talk/googlezurich2012/Makefile b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/Makefile
copy from talk/googlezurich2012/Makefile
copy to talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/Makefile
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/author.latex
b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/author.latex
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/author.latex
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+\definecolor{rrblitbackground}{rgb}{0.0, 0.0, 0.0}
+
+\title[PyPy in Production]{PyPy}
+\author[Armin Rigo]
+{Armin Rigo}
+
+\institute{PyCon ZA 2012}
+\date{October 4, 2012}
diff --git a/talk/googlezurich2012/beamerdefs.txt
b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/beamerdefs.txt
copy from talk/googlezurich2012/beamerdefs.txt
copy to talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/beamerdefs.txt
--- a/talk/googlezurich2012/beamerdefs.txt
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/beamerdefs.txt
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
-.. |snake| image:: ../img/py-web-new.png
+.. |snake| image:: ../../img/py-web-new.png
:scale: 15%
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/demo1.py
b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/demo1.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/demo1.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+
+class Number(object):
+
+ def __init__(self, num):
+ self.num = num
+
+ def __add__(self, other):
+ return Number(self.num + other.num)
+
+ def __invert__(self):
+ return Number(~self.num)
+
+def foo(n):
+ total = Number(0)
+ for i in range(n):
+ total += Number(i)
+ total += ~ Number(i)
+ return total.num
+
diff --git a/talk/googlezurich2012/standards.png
b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/standards.png
copy from talk/googlezurich2012/standards.png
copy to talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/standards.png
diff --git a/talk/googlezurich2012/stylesheet.latex
b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/stylesheet.latex
copy from talk/googlezurich2012/stylesheet.latex
copy to talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/stylesheet.latex
diff --git a/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/talk.rst
b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/talk.rst
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/talk.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+.. include:: beamerdefs.txt
+
+============================================================
+PyPy
+============================================================
+
+
+PyPy is...
+--------------------------
+
+* Another Python interpreter
+
+* with a JIT compiler
+
+
+PyPy was...
+-------------------
+
+* Around since 2003
+
+* (advertised as) production ready since December 2010
+
+ - release 1.4
+
+* Funding
+
+ - EU FP6 programme
+
+ - Eurostars programme
+
+ - donations
+
+ - ...
+
+
+PyPy 1.9: current status
+------------------------
+
+* Faster
+
+ - **1.7x** than 1.5 (Summer 2011)
+
+ - **2.2x** than 1.4 (December 2010)
+
+ - **5.5x** than CPython
+
+* Implements Python 2.7.3
+
+* Many more "PyPy-friendly" programs than before
+
+* Packaging
+
+ - |scriptsize| Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Homebrew, Gentoo, ArchLinux, ...
|end_scriptsize|
+
+ - |scriptsize| Windows (32bit only), OS X |end_scriptsize|
+
+* C extension compatibility
+
+ - runs (big part of) **PyOpenSSL** and **lxml**
+
+
+PyPy organization
+-----------------
+
+* Part of SFC -- Software Freedom Conservancy
+
+ - Bradley successfully fighting U.S. bureaucracy
+
+ - we are happy about it
+
+
+* Funding model
+
+ - py3k, numpy, STM
+
+ - more than 100'000$ in donations
+
+ - from individuals, large companies and the PSF
+
+
+PyPy's JIT compiler
+-------------------
+
+* Removes abstraction
+
+* Almost never gives up
+
+* x86-32, x86-64, ARMv7, (POWER64)
+
+* (Works with other languages)
+
+
+Real world applications
+-----------------------
+
+* Positive feedback
+
+* http://speed.pypy.org/
+
+
+
+py3k
+------------------------
+
+* ``py3k`` branch in mercurial
+
+ - developed in parallel
+
+ - Python 3 written in Python 2
+
+* Focus on correctness
+
+* Dropped some interpreter optimizations for now
+
+* First 90% done, remaining 90% not done
+
+* Majority of the funds by Google
+
+
+NumPy
+-----
+
+* progress going slowly
+
+* multi dimensional arrays, broadcasting, fancy indexing
+
+* all dtypes, except complex, strings and objects
+
+* good results for performance
+
+
+STM
+---------------------------
+
+* Software Transactional Memory
+
+* "Remove the GIL"
+
+* But also, new models (better than threads)
+
+
+
+Calling C
+---------
+
+.. image:: standards.png
+ :scale: 60%
+ :align: center
+
+Calling C landscape
+-------------------
+
+* CPython C extensions
+
+* SWIG, SIP, wrapper generators
+
+* ctypes
+
+* Cython
+
+* CFFI (our new thing)
+
+CFFI
+----------
+
+|scriptsize|
+|example<| Example |>|
+
+ .. sourcecode:: pycon
+
+ >>> from cffi import FFI
+ >>> ffi = FFI()
+ >>> ffi.cdef("""
+ ... int printf(const char *format, ...);
+ ... """)
+ >>> C = ffi.dlopen(None)
+ >>> arg = ffi.new("char[]", "world")
+ >>> C.printf("hi there, %s!\n", arg)
+ hi there, world!
+
+|end_example|
+|end_scriptsize|
+
+CFFI
+----
+
+* Many more examples
+
+* Including macro calls and most subtleties of C
+
+* http://cffi.readthedocs.org
+
+
+STM
+---
+
+
+Conclusion
+----------
+
+* Try out PyPy on real code
+
+* http://pypy.org/
+
+* Thank you!
diff --git a/talk/googlezurich2012/title.latex
b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/title.latex
copy from talk/googlezurich2012/title.latex
copy to talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/title.latex
--- a/talk/googlezurich2012/title.latex
+++ b/talk/pyconza2012/stm-talk/title.latex
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{figure}[h]
-\includegraphics[width=60px]{../img/py-web-new.png}
+\includegraphics[width=60px]{../../img/py-web-new.png}
\end{figure}
\end{titlepage}
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+
+==================================
+Python performance characteristics
+==================================
+
+Who am I?
+---------
+
+* Maciej Fijałkowski (yes this is unicode)
+
+* PyPy core developer for I don't remember
+
+* performance freak
+
+What this talk is about?
+------------------------
+
+* python performance (or lack of it)
+
+* why does it matter
+
+* what can we do about it
+
+* how PyPy works
+
+Python performance message
+---------------------------
+
+* according to Guido
+
+* "Avoid overengineering datastructures. Tuples are better than objects (try
namedtuple too though). Prefer simple fields over getter/setter functions."
+
+* "Built-in datatypes are your friends. Use more numbers, strings, tuples,
lists, sets, dicts. Also check out the collections library, esp. deque."
+
+* "Be suspicious of function/method calls; creating a stack frame is
expensive."
+
+* "The universal speed-up is rewriting small bits of code in C. Do this only
when all else fails."
+
+What does it mean?
+------------------
+
+* don't use abstractions
+
+|pause|
+
+* don't use Python
+
+But also
+--------
+
+* measure!
+
+* there are so many variables, you cannot care without benchmarks
+
+|pause|
+
+* if you have no benchmarks, you don't care
+
+This is not how I want to write software
+----------------------------------------
+
+* I like my abstractions
+
+* I like Python
+
+* I don't want to rewrite stuff for performance
+
+|pause|
+
+* in C/C++
+
+Second best
+-----------
+
+* keep my abstractions
+
+* do arcane voodoo to keep my programs fast
+
+* but you have to understand the voodo in the first place
+
+But Python performance!
+-----------------------
+
+* there is no such thing as language performance
+
+* there is implementation performance
+
+* the language might be easier or harder to optimize
+
+* CPython performance characteristics is relatively straightforward
+
+What is PyPy?
+-------------
+
+* PyPy is a Python interpreter (that's what we care about)
+
+* PyPy is a toolchain for creating dynamic language implementations
+
+* also, an Open Source project that has been around for a while
+
+Compilers vs interpreters
+-------------------------
+
+* compilers compile language X (C, Python) to a lower level language
+ (C, assembler) ahead of time
+
+* interpreters compile language X to bytecode and have a big interpreter
+ loop
+
+|pause|
+
+* PyPy has a hybrid approach. It's an interpreter, but hot paths are
+ compiled directly to assembler during runtime
+
+What is just in time (JIT) compilation?
+---------------------------------------
+
+* few different flavors
+
+* observe runtime values
+
+* compile code with agressive optimizations
+
+* have checks if assumptions still stand
+
+So what PyPy does?
+------------------
+
+* interprets a Python program
+
+* the JIT observes python **interpreter**
+
+* producing code through the path followed by the interpreter
+
+* compiles loops and functions
+
+Some properties
+---------------
+
+* the code speed **changes** over time
+
+* hopefully from slow to fast
+
+* you need to warm up things before they get fast
+
+Some example
+------------
+
+* integer addition!
+
+Abstractions
+------------
+
+* inlining, malloc removal
+
+* abstractions are cheap
+
+|pause|
+
+* if they don't introduce too much complexity
+
+Few words about garbage collection
+----------------------------------
+
+* ``CPython``: refcounting + cyclic collector
+
+* ``PyPy``: generational mark & sweep
+
+|pause|
+
+* errr....
+
+The rest
+--------
+
+* I'll explain various PyPy strategies
+
+* ideally all this knowledge will be unnecessary
+
+* this is the second best, how to please the JIT compiler
+
+Allocations (PyPy)
+------------------
+
+* allocation is expensive
+
+* for a good GC, short living objects don't matter
+
+* it's better to have a small persistent structure and abstraction
+ on allocation
+
+|pause|
+
+* copying however is expensive
+
+* we have hacks for strings, but they're not complete
+
+Calls
+-----
+
+* Python calls are an incredible mess
+
+* simple is better than complex
+
+* simple call comes with no cost, the cost grows with growing complexity
+
+Attribute access
+----------------
+
+* if optimized, almost as fast as local var access
+
+* ``dict`` lookup optimized away
+
+* class attributes considered constant
+
+* meta programming is better than dynamism
+
+* objects for small number of constant keys, dicts for large
+ numbers of changing keys
+
+Other sorts of loops
+--------------------
+
+* there is more!
+
+* ``tuple(iterable)``, ``map(iterable)``, ``re.search``
+
+* they're all jitted
+
+* not all nicely
+
+Summary
+-------
+
+* we hope this knowledge will not be needed
+
+* the more you care, the better you need to know
+
+Questions?
+----------
+
+* Thank you!
+
+* http://pypy.org
+
+* http://baroquesoftware.com
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+\begin{titlepage}
+\begin{figure}[h]
+\includegraphics[width=60px]{../img/py-web-new.png}
+\end{figure}
+\end{titlepage}
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