mirror of https://github.com/exaloop/codon.git
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37 lines
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Codon is a high-performance Python compiler that compiles Python code to
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native machine code without any runtime overhead. Typical speedups over
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Python are on the order of 100x or more, on a single thread. Codon
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supports native multithreading which can lead to speedups many times higher still.
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The Codon framework is fully modular and extensible, allowing for the
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seamless integration of new modules, compiler optimizations, domain-specific
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languages and so on. We actively develop Codon extensions for a number of
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domains such as bioinformatics and quantitative finance.
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# Codon at a glance
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A simple Python program `fib.py`...
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``` python
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from time import time
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def fib(n):
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return n if n < 2 else fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
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t0 = time()
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ans = fib(40)
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t1 = time()
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print(f'Computed fib(40) = {ans} in {t1 - t0} seconds.')
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```
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... run through Python and Codon:
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```
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$ python3 fib.py
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Computed fib(40) = 102334155 in 17.979357957839966 seconds.
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$ codon run -release fib.py
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Computed fib(40) = 102334155 in 0.275645 seconds.
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```
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