Faster Python Code
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn tips to help optimize your Python code. Discover how to pick the right data structures, use caching, integrate performance in your process, and more.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Use Codespaces with this course
- Always profile first
- General tips
- Measuring time
- CPU profiling
- line_profiler
- Tracing memory allocations
- memory_profiler
- Big-O notation
- bisect
- deque
- heapq
- Beyond the standard library
- Local caching of names
- Remove function calls
- Using __slots__
- Built-ins
- Allocate
- Overview
- Pre-calculating
- lru_cache
- Joblib
- When approximation is good enough
- Cheating example
- Amdahl's Law
- Threads
- Processes
- asyncio
- NumPy
- Numba
- Cython
- PyPy
- C extensions
- Why do we need a process?
- Design and code reviews
- Benchmarks
- Monitoring and alerting
- Next steps
Taught by
Miki Tebeka
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