What began as a project rooted in paranoia that my basement would flood evolved first into a lunch-and-learn I hosted for Cardinal Peak employees. During my initial presentation, I focused on Amazon Web Services’ “internet of things” services and how I created “SumPy,” an AWS IoT-driven sump pump monitor and alert system.
Last week I started this two-part blog series about increasing the speed of Python through Cython and PyPy. While we already discussed the effects of Cython, I wanted to continue the discussion with a look at PyPy and then a contrast of both PyPy and Cython. How Fast Is PyPy? PyPy is an alternative Python…
When a Python program runs too slowly for our liking, there are several ways to speed it up. I recently spent some time experimenting with two of the most popular tools: Cython and PyPy. In this two-part post, I will discuss both solutions, starting today with Cython.
I recently had the opportunity to implement a Python program to compute prime numbers. After I was done, I wondered how the Python implementation compared to doing the same exact thing in C++, so I decided to do a comparison. First, the Python program. I computed prime numbers using the Sieve of Eratosthenes. (No, I…