murilo-cunha / pyspeed

Investigating and comparing Python's performance speedup alternatives

Python Speedups

Investigating and comparing Python's performance speedup alternatives

Overview

Note: values may change - local setup was experimental and unstable.

method	time	relative
python 3.9	126.06s	1
python 3.11	117.97s	0.93
pypy3	3.51s	0.028
cython	121.45s	0.96
mypyc	106.56s	0.85
pyo3	4.59s	0.036
mojo*	???	???

Setup

git clone ...
pdm install

Python 3.9

source .venv/bin/activate
python -c "from pure_python.triangles import main; main()"

Python 3.11

pdm venv create -n py311 python3.11
eval $(pdm venv activate py311)
python -c "from pure_python.triangles import main; main()"

Cython

source .venv/bin/activate
cythonize --3str -i pure_python/triangles.py
python -c "from pure_python.triangles import main; main()"
rm pure_python/*.so pure_python/*.c # clean up
rm -rf pure_python/build  # clean up

Mypyc

source .venv/bin/activate
mypyc pure_python/triangles.py
python -c "from triangles import main; main()"
rm *.so  # clean up
rm -rf build/  # clean up

PyO3

source .venv/bin/activate
cd rust_python/
maturin develop --release
python -c "from rust_python.triangles import main; main();"

Mojo 🔥

Mojo not open source yet (June, 2023). Could not compare performance to regular Python - imports, different syntax, etc.