UA PYCON 2012. Kostia Lopuhin. Partial evaluation in Python
20-21.10.2012
UA PYCON 2012. day 1 Hall B
Kostia Lopuhin.
Partial evaluation in Python
Partial evaluation is a powerful optimization technique that allows you to use the strengths of Python (expressive, fast runtime), and avoid it's weaknesses (slow interpretation). It uses information available at run-time to generate specialized program code that runs faster than the generic one. Partial evaluation has a lot of successful applications, but is not widely used in the Python community.
The talk will focus on:
what is partial evaluation
simple example of partial evaluation, it's analysis and benchmark
when to use partial evaluation
real-world example: 10x speedup of an OLAP calculation engine
practical advice, problems, working around them
partial evaluation library for Python
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