From: Stefan Behnel Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:56:02 +0000 (+0200) Subject: EuroPython 2008 slides and examples X-Git-Tag: 0.9.8.1~130 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54db2a8551c8be09be88a55f836cae83958e35fb;p=cython.git EuroPython 2008 slides and examples --- diff --git a/Doc/s5/Makefile b/Doc/s5/Makefile index 76984acb..6623db6f 100644 --- a/Doc/s5/Makefile +++ b/Doc/s5/Makefile @@ -1,10 +1,17 @@ SLIDES=$(subst .txt,.html,$(wildcard *.txt)) +SOURCES=$(subst .py,.c,$(subst .pyx,.c,$(wildcard */*.py */*.pyx))) -slides: $(SLIDES) +slides: $(SLIDES) $(SOURCES) %.html: %.txt rst2s5 --current-slide --language=en $< $@ +%.c: %.py + cython --annotate $< + +%.c: %.pyx + cython --annotate $< + clean: - rm -f *~ $(SLIDES) + rm -f *~ $(SLIDES) $(SOURCES) $(subst .c,.html,$(SOURCES)) diff --git a/Doc/s5/cython-ep2008.txt b/Doc/s5/cython-ep2008.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cebf2492 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/s5/cython-ep2008.txt @@ -0,0 +1,403 @@ +============================================== +The Cython Compiler for C-Extensions in Python +============================================== + +Dr. Stefan Behnel +----------------- + +.. class:: center + + http://www.cython.org/ + + cython-dev@codespeak.net + +.. footer:: Dr. Stefan Behnel, EuroPython 2008, Vilnius/Lietuva + +.. include:: + + +About myself +============ + +* Passionate Python developer since 2002 + + * after Basic, Logo, Pascal, Prolog, Scheme, Java, ... + +* CS studies in Germany, Ireland, France + +* PhD in distributed systems in 2007 + + * Language design for self-organising systems + + * Darmstadt University of Technologies, Germany + +* Current occupations: + + * Employed by Senacor Technologies AG, Germany + + * IT transformations, SOA design, Java-Development, ... + + * »lxml« OpenSource XML toolkit for Python + + * http://codespeak.net/lxml/ + + * Cython + + +What is Cython? +=============== + +Cython is + +* an Open-Source project + + * http://cython.org + +* a Python compiler (almost) + + * an enhanced, optimising fork of Pyrex + +* an extended Python language for + + * writing fast Python extension modules + + * interfacing Python with C libraries + + +A little bit of history +======================= + +* April 2002: release of Pyrex 0.1 by Greg Ewing + + * Greg considers Pyrex a language in design phase + + * Pyrex became a key language for many projects + + * over the years, many people patched their Pyrex + + * not all patches were answered by Greg (not in time) + +* minor forks and enhanced branches followed + + * March 2006: my fork of Pyrex for »lxml« XML toolkit + + * November 2006: »SageX« fork of Pyrex + + * by Robert Bradshaw, William Stein (Univ. Seattle, USA) + + * context: »Sage«, a free mathematics software package + +* 28th July 2007: official Cython launch + + * integration of lxml's Pyrex fork into SageX + + * the rest is in http://hg.cython.org/cython-devel/ + + +Major Cython Developers +======================= + +* Robert Bradshaw and Stefan Behnel + + * lead developers + +* Greg Ewing + + * main developer and maintainer of Pyrex + + * we happily share code and discuss ideas + +* Dag Sverre Seljebotn + + * Google Summer-of-Code developer + + * NumPy integration, many ideas and enhancements + +* many, *many* others - see + + * http://cython.org/ + + * the mailing list archives of Cython and Pyrex + + +How to use Cython +================= + +* you write Python code + + * Cython translates it into C code + + * your C compiler builds a shared library for CPython + + * you import your module + +* Cython has support for + + * compile-time includes/imports + + * with dependency tracking + + * distutils + + * *optionally* compile Python code from setup.py! + + +Example: compiling Python code +============================== + +.. sourcecode:: bash + + $ cat worker.py + +.. sourcecode:: python + + class HardWorker(object): + u"Almost Sisyphus" + def __init__(self, task): + self.task = task + + def work_hard(self): + for i in range(100): + self.task() + +.. sourcecode:: bash + + $ cython worker.py + +* translates to 842 line `.c file `_ (Cython 0.9.8) + + * lots of portability #define's + + * tons of helpful C comments with Python code snippets + + * a lot of code that you don't want to write yourself + + +Portable Code +============= + +* Cython compiler generates C code that compiles + + * with all major compilers (C and C++) + + * on all major platforms + + * in Python 2.3 to 3.0 beta1 + +* Cython language syntax follows Python 2.6 + + * optional Python 3 syntax support is on TODO list + + * get involved to get it quicker! + +\... the fastest way to port Python 2 code to Py3 ;-) + + +Python 2 feature support +======================== + +* most of Python 2 syntax is supported + + * top-level classes and functions + + * exceptions + + * object operations, arithmetic, ... + +* plus some Py3/2.6 features: + + * keyword-only arguments + + * unicode literals via ``__future__`` import + +* in recent developer branch: + + * ``with`` statement + + * closures + + * support for local classes and functions is close! + + +Speed +===== + +Cython generates very efficient C code + +* according to PyBench: + + * conditions and loops run 2-8x faster than in Py2.5 + + * most benchmarks run 30%-80% faster + + * overall more than 30% faster for plain Python code + +* optional type declarations + + * let Cython generate plain C instead of C-API calls + + * make code several times faster than the above + + +Type declarations +================= + +* »cdef« keyword declares + + * local variables with C types + + * functions with C signatures + + * classes as builtin extension types + +* Example:: + + def stupid_lower_case(char* s): + cdef Py_ssize_t size, i + + size = len(s) + for i in range(size): + if s[i] >= 'A' and s[i] <= 'Z': + s[i] += 'a' - 'A' + return s + + +Why is this stupid? +=================== + +Ask Cython! + +.. sourcecode:: bash + + $ cat stupidlowercase.py + +:: + + def stupid_lower_case(char* s): + cdef Py_ssize_t size, i + + size = len(s) + for i in range(size): + if s[i] >= 'A' and s[i] <= 'Z': + s[i] += 'a' - 'A' + return s + +.. sourcecode:: bash + + $ cython --annotate stupidlowercase.py + +=> `stupidlowercase.html `_ + + +Calling C functions +=================== + +* Example:: + + cdef extern from "Python.h": + # copied from the Python C-API docs: + object PyUnicode_DecodeASCII( + char* s, Py_ssize_t size, char* errors) + + cdef extern from "string.h": + int strlen(char *s) + + + cdef slightly_better_lower_case(char* s): + cdef Py_ssize_t i, size = strlen(s) + for i in range(size): + if s[i] >= 'A' and s[i] <= 'Z': + s[i] += 'a' - 'A' + return PyUnicode_DecodeASCII(s, size, NULL) + + +Cutting-edge features +===================== + +* Dynamic classes and functions with closures + + .. sourcecode:: python + + def myfunction(a,b): + def closure_function(c): + return a+b+c + return closure_function + +* Native support for new ``buffer`` protocol this summer + + * part of NumPy integration by Dag Seljebotn + + .. sourcecode:: python + + def inplace_negative_grayscale_image( + ndarray[unsigned char, 2] image): + cdef int i, j + for i in range(image.shape[0]): + for j in range(image.shape[1]): + arr[i, j] = 255 - arr[i, j] + + +Huge pile of great ideas +======================== + +* Cython Enhancement Proposals (CEPs) + + * http://wiki.cython.org/enhancements + +* native pickle support for extension classes + +* meta-programming facilities + +* type inference strategies + +* compile-time assertions for optimisations + +* object-like C-array handling + +* improved C++ integration + +* ... + + +Conclusion +========== + +* Cython is a tool for + + * efficiently translating Python code to C + + * easily interfacing to external C libraries + +* Use it to + + * speed up existing Python modules + + * concentrate on optimisations, not rewrites! + + * write C extensions for CPython + + * don't change the language just to get fast code! + + * wrap C libraries *in Python* + + * concentrate on the mapping, not the glue! + + +... but Cython is also +====================== + +* a great project + +* a very open playground for great ideas! + + +Cython +====== + + **Cython** + + **C-Extensions in Python** + + \... use it, and join the project! + + http://cython.org/ diff --git a/Doc/s5/ep2008/stupidlowercase.py b/Doc/s5/ep2008/stupidlowercase.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8f2812da --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/s5/ep2008/stupidlowercase.py @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ + +def stupid_lower_case(char* s): + cdef Py_ssize_t size, i + + size = len(s) + for i in range(size): + if s[i] >= 'A' and s[i] <= 'Z': + s[i] += 'a' - 'A' + return s diff --git a/Doc/s5/ep2008/worker.py b/Doc/s5/ep2008/worker.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2b260281 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/s5/ep2008/worker.py @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ + +class HardWorker(object): + u"Almost Sisyphus" + def __init__(self, task): + self.task = task + + def work_hard(self): + for i in range(100): + self.task()