In the series of the three chapters on performance, we covered several important aspects. The things learned here will help you with the majority of common application performance enhancement tasks. Where do we go from here? There are some other important topics that you can explore, among those are JIT compilers and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) programming. This section aims at providing some basic information on these two topics. You can follow the links provided here for further understanding.
Python is an interpreted language. In simple terms, it means that the code is parsed and executed directly without involving any code compilation. Although this offers a great deal of flexibility, the program typically runs slower.
In high-level programming languages such as C++, the code is compiled ahead of time or before the execution. Generally speaking, a compiled program (C++) runs faster compared to the equivalent interpreted program (Python).
Thus, we have an...
