On the Performance of the Python Programming Language for Serial and Parallel Scientific Computations

This article addresses the performance of scientific applications that use the Python programming language. First, we investigate several techniques for improving the computational efficiency of serial Python codes. Then, we discuss the basic programming techniques in Python for parallelizing serial...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xing Cai, Hans Petter Langtangen, Halvard Moe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2005-01-01
Series:Scientific Programming
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2005/619804