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Speed Up Your Python with Rust

You're reading from  Speed Up Your Python with Rust

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811446
Pages 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Maxwell Flitton Maxwell Flitton
Profile icon Maxwell Flitton
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting to Understand Rust
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Rust from a Python Perspective 3. Chapter 2: Structuring Code in Rust 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Concurrency 5. Section 2: Fusing Rust with Python
6. Chapter 4: Building pip Modules in Python 7. Chapter 5: Creating a Rust Interface for Our pip Module 8. Chapter 6: Working with Python Objects in Rust 9. Chapter 7: Using Python Modules with Rust 10. Chapter 8: Structuring an End-to-End Python Package in Rust 11. Section 3: Infusing Rust into a Web Application
12. Chapter 9: Structuring a Python Flask App for Rust 13. Chapter 10: Injecting Rust into a Python Flask App 14. Chapter 11: Best Practices for Integrating Rust 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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  1. Threads are lightweight and enable multithreading, where we can run multiple tasks that could have idle time. A process is more expensive, enabling us to run multiple CPU-heavy tasks at the same time. Processes do not share memory, while threads do.
  2. Multithreading would not speed up our Fibonacci sequence calculations because calculating Fibonacci numbers is a CPU-heavy task that does not have any idle time; therefore, the threads would run sequentially in Python. However, we did demonstrate that Rust can run multiple threads at the same time, getting a significant speed increase.
  3. Multiprocessing is expensive and the processes do not share memory, making the implementation potentially more complex. A processing pool keeps the multiprocessing part of a program to a minimum. This approach also enables us to easily control the different numbers of workers we need as they're all in one place, and we can also return all the outcomes in the same sequence as they...
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