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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

Comparing speed with Python, Rust, and Numba

We have now built a pip module in Rust with command-line tools, Python interfaces, and unit tests. This is a shiny new tool that we have. Let's put it to the test. We know that Rust by itself is faster than Python. However, do we know that the pyo3 bindings slow us down? Also, there is another way to speed up our Python code and this is with Numba, a Python package that compiles Python code to speed it up. Should we go through all of the haste of creating the Rust package if we can achieve the same speed with Numba? In this section, we will run our Fibonacci function several times, in Python, Numba, and our Rust module. It has to be noted that Numba can be a headache to install. For instance, I could not install it on my MacBook Pro M1. I had to install Numba on a Linux laptop to run this section. You don't have to run the code in this section; it is more for demonstrative purposes. If you do want to try and run the test script...

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