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Python 3.6 & Performance. A Love Story

Python 3.6 & Performance. A Love Story

Slides from Why Python 3.6 is faster than Python 3.5 talk. Also included a preview of new features of Python 3.6

Igor Davydenko

February 04, 2017
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  1. Python 3.6 & Python 3.6 & Performance Performance A Love

    Story A Love Story Igor Davydenko 2017, PyCon Belarus
  2. I am... I am... Igor Davydenko Igor Davydenko Python &

    React.js developer at EVO Company From Kyiv, Ukraine Love Python 3, asyncio & aio stack Use Python 3.6 in production Personal Site @ GitHub @ Twi er
  3. PEP 498 PEP 498: f-strings : f-strings name = 'Igor'

    country = 'Belarus' f"Hi, {country}! I'm {name}"
  4. PEP 525 PEP 525: Async generators : Async generators async

    def coro(): for item in range(10): yield item async def main(): async for item in coro(): ...
  5. PEP 530 PEP 530: Async comprehensions : Async comprehensions data

    = [item async for item in fetch_data()] data_gen = (item async for item in fetch_data())
  6. PEP 526 PEP 526: Variable annotations : Variable annotations from

    typing import Any, Dict, List data: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [] key: str # No initial value class Validator(object): data: Dict[str, Any] = {}
  7. And more… And more… number = 1_000_000 aka underscores in

    numeric literals New secrets module os.PathLike aka file system path protocol PYTHONMALLOC var & DTrace probing support Simpler metaclasses & enhancements to descriptors Local Time Disambiguation Change Windows filesystem/console encoding to UTF-8 New dict implementation And even more…
  8. The Problem The Problem Why to switch to Python 3

    if it slower than Python 2? Plus there is a PyPy
  9. Acceptance Acceptance We understand that Python 3 is slow We

    need a tool to compare Python 2 / Python 3 performance We don't need to enforce benchmark-driven-developmen
  10. perf perf perf.readthedocs.io Toolkit to write, run, analyze & modify

    benchmarks Store results in JSON Has tool to display, compare, analyze and modify benchmark results Includes statistical tools to analyze the distribution of results
  11. perf perf $ python3 -m perf compare_to 2016-11-03_15-36-2.7-91f024fc9b3a.json.gz 2016-11-03_15-38-3.6-c4319c0d0131.json.gz -G

    --min-speed=5 Slower (40): - python_startup: 7.74 ms +- 0.28 ms -> 26.9 ms +- 0.6 ms: 3.47x slower - python_startup_no_site: 4.43 ms +- 0.08 ms -> 10.4 ms +- 0.4 ms: 2.36x slower - ... Faster (15): - telco: 707 ms +- 22 ms -> 22.1 ms +- 0.4 ms: 32.04x faster - unpickle_list: 15.0 us +- 0.3 us -> 7.86 us +- 0.16 us: 1.90x faster - ... Benchmark hidden because not significant (8): 2to3, dulwich_log, nbody, pidigits, regex_dna, tornado_http, unpack_sequence, unpickle Ignored benchmarks (3) of 2016-11-03_15-36-2.7-91f024fc9b3a.json: hg_startup, pyflate, spambayes
  12. python/performance python/performance speed.python.org Authirative source of benchmarks for all Python

    implementations Focus on real-world benchmarks, rather than synthetic benchmarks pyperformance will run Student's two-tailed T test on the benchmark results at the 95% confidence level to indicate whether the observed difference is statistically is statistically significant significant
  13. python/performance python/performance Examples django_template: use the Django template system to

    build a 150x150-cell HTML table dulwich_log: Iterate on commits of the asyncio Git repository using the Dulwich module hexiom: Solver of Hexiom board game (level 25 by default) sqlalchemy_declarative: SQLAlchemy Declarative benchmark using SQLite telco: Benchmark the decimal module tornado_http: Benchmark HTTP server of the tornado module
  14. Performance Trends Performance Trends Python 2.7 is still fastest Python

    Python 3.5 much faster Python 3.4 Python 3.6 faster Python 3.5 Python 3.7 has some significant improvements already
  15. Asyncio Improvements Asyncio Improvements asyncio.Future now has an optimized C

    implementation asyncio.Task now has an optimized C implementation Python Future & Task | C Future & Py Task | C Future & C Task 23K req/s | 26K | 30K | ~10-15% boost | ~15% A er optimizations uvloop start working faster up to 5% as well
  16. String & Bytes Improvements String & Bytes Improvements ASCII decoder

    for surrogateescape, ignore and replace up to 60 times faster ASCII & Latin-1 encoder for surrogateescape up to 3 times faster UTF-8 decoder for error handlers up to 75 times faster UTF-8 encoder for error handlers up to 15 times faster bytes % args / bytearray % args up to 5 times faster More optimizations for bytes.fromhex(), bytearray.fromhex() & bytes.replace(...), bytearray.replace(...) methods
  17. Glob Improvements Glob Improvements Optimized glob() and iglob() functions; up

    to 6 times faster Optimized globbing in pathlib; up to 4 times faster Optimization gained by using os.scandir() introduced in Python 3.5
  18. New New dict dict implementation implementation dict type now using

    "compact" representation First implemented in PyPy The memory usage of the new dict() is between 20% and 25% smaller compared to 3.5
  19. New New dict dict implementation implementation Preserving class a ribute

    definition order Preserving keyword argument order data = {'a': 1, 'b': 2} data['c'] = 3 assert str(data) == "{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}"
  20. New New dict dict implementation implementation data = {'one': 'один',

    'two': 'два', 'three': 'три'} # Before entries = [['--', '--', '--'], [-8522787127447073495, 'two', 'два'], ['--', '--', '--'], ['--', '--', '--'], ['--', '--', '--'], [-9092791511155847987, 'one', 'один'], ['--', '--', '--'], [-6480567542315338377, 'three', 'три']]
  21. New New dict dict implementation implementation data = {'one': 'один',

    'two': 'два', 'three': 'три'} # After indices = [None, 1, None, None, None, 0, None, 2] entries = [[-9092791511155847987, 'one', 'один'], [-8522787127447073495, 'two', 'два'], [-6480567542315338377, 'three', 'три']]
  22. Few other things Few other things Optimization of passing keyword

    arguments, comparing to passing positional arguments picke.load() & picke.loads() up to 10% faster on many small objects Various implementation improvements in typing module xml.etree.ElementTree parsing, iteration and deepcopy improvements Creation of fractions.Fraction from floats and decimals up to 3 times faster
  23. Python 3.7 Python 3.7 will be faster than will be

    faster than Python 3.6 Python 3.6