Python for Finance: Analyze Big Financial Data

Further Reading

For all performance libraries introduced in this chapter, there are valuable web resources

available:

For details on numexpr see http://github.com/pydata/numexpr.

IPython.parallel is explained here: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/parallel.

Find the documentation for the multiprocessing module here:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html.

Information on Numba can be found at http://github.com/numba/numba.

http://cython.org is the home of the Cython compiler project.

For the documentation of NumbaPro, refer to http://docs.continuum.io/numbapro.

For a reference in book form, see the following:

Gorelick, Misha and Ian Ozsvald (2014): High Performance Python. O’Reilly,

Sebastopol, CA.

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Formerly, LLVM was meant to be an acronym for Low Level Virtual Machine; now “it is the full name of the

project.”

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See also Chapter 10 on these topics.