Learning Cython Programming
Published on 25. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
118 pages
978-1-78328-079-7 (ISBN)
Description
A practical and a fast-paced guide that gives you all the information you need to start programming using Cython. This book is for developers who love C/C++ for low latency and speed but who also require the ability to add more dynamic features to applications both fast and reliably. It will also show you how you can get new applications off the ground by reusing Python libraries to get started.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78328-079-7 (9781783280797)
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Person
Philip Herron is an avid software engineer who focuses his passion towards
compilers and virtual machine implementations. When he was fi rst accepted to
Google Summer of Code 2010, he used inspiration from Paul Biggar's PhD on
optimization of dynamic languages to develop a proof of concept GCC frontend
to compile Python. This project sparked his deep interest of how Python works.
After completing a consecutive year on the same project in 2011, Philip decided
to apply for Cython under the Python foundation to gain a deeper appreciation
of the standard Python implementation. Through this, he started leveraging the
advantages of Python to control the logic in systems or even to add more high-level
interfaces such as embedding Twisted web servers for REST calls to a system-level
piece of software without writing any C code.
Currently Philip is employed by NYSE Euronext in Belfast Northern Ireland,
working on multiprocessing systems. But he spends his evenings hacking on GCCPy,
Cython, and GCC. In the past, he has worked with WANdisco as an Apache Hadoop
developer and as an intern with SAP Research on cloud computing.
compilers and virtual machine implementations. When he was fi rst accepted to
Google Summer of Code 2010, he used inspiration from Paul Biggar's PhD on
optimization of dynamic languages to develop a proof of concept GCC frontend
to compile Python. This project sparked his deep interest of how Python works.
After completing a consecutive year on the same project in 2011, Philip decided
to apply for Cython under the Python foundation to gain a deeper appreciation
of the standard Python implementation. Through this, he started leveraging the
advantages of Python to control the logic in systems or even to add more high-level
interfaces such as embedding Twisted web servers for REST calls to a system-level
piece of software without writing any C code.
Currently Philip is employed by NYSE Euronext in Belfast Northern Ireland,
working on multiprocessing systems. But he spends his evenings hacking on GCCPy,
Cython, and GCC. In the past, he has worked with WANdisco as an Apache Hadoop
developer and as an intern with SAP Research on cloud computing.