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How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times.

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How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times.

David Schachter describes how he made a data-collection Python program run 114,000 times faster, drawing on decades of experience. The talk covers pipelining, cache effects and other optimization lessons.

A favorite tech talk on HN for showing that hardware knowledge and generalist skills beat simply adding machines.

5 Hacker News mentions · 2015–2022

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