How a Python Program Was Made 114,000 Times Faster
InfoQ · Talk · YouTube title: How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times.
Why it's here
A favorite tech talk on HN for showing that hardware knowledge and generalist skills beat simply adding machines.
What it covers
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.