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Python-Based Compiler Achieves Performance Speedups
The Codon domain-extensible compiler uses Python's syntax and semantics.
The Codon compiler, from a team led by researchers from MIT CSAIL, allows developers to create new domain-specific languages within Python while achieving performance that rivals the C and C++ programming languages.
The research team compiled about 10 commonly used genomics applications written in Python and observed speedups of five to 10 times over the original hand-optimized implementations.
"Instead of needing to rewrite the program using a C-implemented library like NumPy or totally rewrite in a language like C, Codon can use the same Python implementation and give the same performance you'll get by rewriting in C,” said MIT's Saman Amarasinghe. Codon is available on GitHub.
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