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femtolisp
- Petalisp: Elegant High Performance Computing
- fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C
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From Common Lisp to Julia
> In short, Julia is very similar to Common Lisp, but brings a lot of extra niceties to the table
This probably because Jeff Bezanson, the creator of Julia, created a Lisp prior to Julia, which I think still exists inside Julia in some fashion
https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
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Modern Python Performance Considerations
Well let's flip this around: do you think you could write a performant minimal Python in a weekend? Scheme is a very simple and elegant idea. Its power derives from the fact that smart people went to considerable pains to distill computation to limited set of things. "Complete" (i.e. rXrs) schemes build quite a lot of themselves... in scheme, from a pretty tiny core. I suspect Jeff Bezanson spent more than a weekend writing femtolisp, but that isn't really important. He's one guy who wrote a pretty darned performant lisp that does useful computation as a passion project. Check out his readme; it's fascinating: https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
You simply can't say these things about Python (and I generally like Python!). It's truer for PyPy, but PyPy is pretty big and complex itself. Take a look at the source for the scheme or scheme-derived language of your choice sometime. I can't claim to be an expert in any of what's going on in there, but I think you'll be surprised how far down those parens go.
The claim I was responding to asserted that lisps and smalltalks can only be fast because of complex JIT compiling. That is trueish in practice for Smalltalk and certainly modern Javascript... but it simply isn't true for every lisp. Certainly JIT-ed lisps can be extremely fast, but it's not the only path to a performant lisp. In these benchmarks you'll see a diversity of approaches even among the top performers: https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/
Given how many performant implementations of Scheme there are, I just don't think you can claim it's because of complex implementations by well-resourced groups. To me, I think the logical conclusion is that Scheme (and other lisps for the most part) are intrinsically pretty optimizable compared to Python. If we look at Common Lisp, there are also multiple performant implementations, some approximately competitive with Java which has had enormous resources poured into making it performant.
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CppCast: Julia
While it uses an Algol inspired syntax, it has the same approach to OOP programing as CLOS(Common Lisp Object System), with multi-methods and protocols, it has a quite powerfull macro system like Lisp, similar REPL experience, and underneath it is powerered by femtolisp.
- Julia and the Incarceration of Lisp
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What is the smallest x86 lisp?
For a real answer, other replies have already mentioned KiloLisp, but there's also femtolisp. Also, not exactly what you're asking for, but Maru is a very compact and elegant self-hosting lisp (compiles to x86).
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lisp but small and low level?Does it make sense?
Take a look at femtolisp It has some low level features and is quite small. There is also a maintenance fork at lambdaconservatory
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Lispsyntax.jl: A Clojure-like Lisp syntax for julia
A fun Julia easter egg I recently discovered.
Running 'julia --lisp' launches a femtolisp (https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp) interpreter.
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Wisp: A light Lisp written in C++
Reminds me of the femtolisp README :)
Almost everybody has their own lisp implementation. Some programmers' dogs and cats probably have their own lisp implementations as well. This is great, but too often I see people omit some of the obscure but critical features that make lisp uniquely wonderful. These include read macros like #. and backreferences, gensyms, and properly escaped symbol names. If you're going to waste everybody's time with yet another lisp, at least do it right damnit.
https://github.com/JeffBezanson/femtolisp
modin
- The Distributed Tensor Algebra Compiler (2022)
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A Polars exploration into Kedro
The interesting thing about Polars is that it does not try to be a drop-in replacement to pandas, like Dask, cuDF, or Modin, and instead has its own expressive API. Despite being a young project, it quickly got popular thanks to its easy installation process and its “lightning fast” performance.
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Modern Polars: an extensive side-by-side comparison of Polars and Pandas
Yeah, tried Polars a couple of times: the API seems worse than Pandas to me too. eg the decision only to support autoincrementing integer indexes seems like it would make debugging "hmmm, that answer is wrong, what exactly did I select?" bugs much more annoying. Polars docs write "blazingly fast" all over them but I doubt that is a compelling point for people using single-node dataframe libraries. It isn't for me.
Modin (https://github.com/modin-project/modin) seems more promising at this point, particularly since a migration path for standing Pandas code is highly desirable.
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Polars: The Next Big Python Data Science Library... written in RUST?
If anyone wants a faster version of pandas it’s not hard to find, modin for example uses multiple cores to speed it up, so if you have 4 cores it’s about 4 times faster than pandas, and has the same API as pandas.
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Working with more than 10gb csv
Modin should fit. It implements Pandas APIs with e.g. Ray as backend. https://github.com/modin-project/modin
- Modern Python Performance Considerations
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I made a video about efficient memory use in pandas dataframes!
If you really want speed you should try modin.pandas which makes pandas multi-threaded.
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Almost no one knows how easily you can optimize your AI models
I am guessing XGB is fairly optimised as it is. If you would want to use the sklearn libraries with pandas, look into Modin
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TIL about modin.pandas which significantly speeds up pandas if you import modin.pandas instead of pandas.
Source
- How to Speed Up Pandas with 1 Line of Code
What are some alternatives?
small-lisp - A very small lisp interpreter, that I may one day get working on my 8-bit AVR microcontroller.
polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust
julia - The Julia Programming Language
swifter - A package which efficiently applies any function to a pandas dataframe or series in the fastest available manner
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
fugue - A unified interface for distributed computing. Fugue executes SQL, Python, Pandas, and Polars code on Spark, Dask and Ray without any rewrites.
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
mars - Mars is a tensor-based unified framework for large-scale data computation which scales numpy, pandas, scikit-learn and Python functions.
sectorlisp - Bootstrapping LISP in a Boot Sector
PandasGUI - A GUI for Pandas DataFrames
hissp - It's Python with a Lissp.
Ray - Ray is a unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.