High Performance Python: Practical Performant Programming for Humans

This book is filled with modern knowledge on how to use python with multiprocessing and asynchronous methods. Expect to learn new information upon purchase and to keep it around long into Python 3 maturity.

This book is a hidden gem. It explains in-depth methods for how to profile your Python programs, how to use different compilers for python code to gain speedups, how your code gets interpreted and how it interacts with the underlying computer architecture, how to write async code and parallel code in python, how to conserve RAM and many more topics and concepts. Each one of the concepts that this book teaches had a lot of work and effort put into by the authors. Wether it's the text or the code examples, the quality is high. The book is written in a way that you can read it in a linear fashion but it can also serve as a reference once you know where everything is. The authors of this book are very talented and experienced python developers with background in data science. In addition to showing many advanced methods for making your code fast, they put a strong emphasis on when/where to use each method and the importance of profiling and benchmarking.This book is probably a better read for people with an intermediate understanding of Python, operating systems and parallel programming. It uses very interesting and high quality problems as examples (warning, they are not always easy to understand). I highly recommend this book to anyone who has been using Python for a few years and wants to take their understanding of the language to the next level.

Good read

The cover should be a Reticulated Python. They are the highest performance python.

A very comprehensive book that covers the memory and performance of Python. Even though the book's title contains "performance," it also has a chapter on memory management. Book has excellent and up to the point examples.

I’m learning a lot and half way through the book. I’ve written some python before but primarily an expert C++ programmer. Ironically I ordered a more fundamental python book and it’s stuck in the mail but still finding this book very understandable.

Good: The book does a nice job covering multiple aspects of speeding up Python code, as well as reducing memory usage, etc. Good examples with test results of different approaches.Not so good: The book is probably twice as long as it should be. There's a ton of filler in here, like the odd opinion notes about hard it is moving code to a cluster, or using multiprocessing. The final section appears to be random thoughts about Python code, and has nothing to do with performance.Also, the writing style is just simply weird. I was reading along about some topic, and all of a sudden the text says, "Ian doesn't like to have his laptop set up so that ...". I thought, "Who is Ian?, and why would I care about his opinion?" Well, it turns out he's one of the two authors. This approach is used multiple times, and boy is it jarring - such a weird way of writing, especially in a technical book.That said, if you can wade through the strange writing and ignore all the useless fluff, there is some good content in this.

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