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pygfx
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Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world
https://github.com/kushalkolar/fastplotlib
Alternatively, try pygfx for ThreeJS graphics in Python leveraging wgpu. It works great in Notebooks through notebook-rfb. https://github.com/pygfx/pygfx
If you're adventurous, figure out how to make pygfx work with webgpu via wasm
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Chrome Ships WebGPU
FYI you can already use webgpu directly in python, see https://github.com/pygfx/wgpu-py for webgpu wrappers and https://github.com/pygfx/pygfx for a more high level graphics library
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Extending Python with Rust
Rather than using matplotlib, you could try either pygfx (https://github.com/pygfx/pygfx) or fastplotlib (https://github.com/kushalkolar/fastplotlib) to make higher performance graphics using Python.
However, it won't solve your problem of Python not being fast enough doing the calculations.
Numba
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Mojo🔥: Head -to-Head with Python and Numba
Around the same time, I discovered Numba and was fascinated by how easily it could bring huge performance improvements to Python code.
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Is anyone using PyPy for real work?
Simulations are, at least in my experience, numba’s [0] wheelhouse.
[0]: https://numba.pydata.org/
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Any data folks coding C++ and Java? If so, why did you leave Python?
That's very cool. Numba introduces just-in-time compilation to Python via decorators and its sole reason for being is to turn everything it can into abstract syntax trees.
- Using Matplotlib with Numba to accelerate code
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Python Algotrading with Machine Learning
A super-fast backtesting engine built in NumPy and accelerated with Numba.
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PYTHON vs OCTAVE for Matlab alternative
Regarding speed, I don't agree this is a good argument against Python. For example, it seems no one here has yet mentioned numba, a Python JIT compiler. With a simple decorator you can compile a function to machine code with speeds on par with C. Numba also allows you to easily write cuda kernels for GPU computation. I've never had to drop down to writing C or C++ to write fast and performant Python code that does computationally demanding tasks thanks to numba.
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Codon: Python Compiler
Just for reference,
* Nuitka[0] "is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11."
* Pypy[1] "is a replacement for CPython" with builtin optimizations such as on the fly JIT compiles.
* Cython[2] "is an optimising static compiler for both the Python programming language and the extended Cython programming language... makes writing C extensions for Python as easy as Python itself."
* Numba[3] "is an open source JIT compiler that translates a subset of Python and NumPy code into fast machine code."
* Pyston[4] "is a performance-optimizing JIT for Python, and is drop-in compatible with ... CPython 3.8.12"
[0] https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka
[1] https://www.pypy.org/
[2] https://cython.org/
[3] https://numba.pydata.org/
[4] https://github.com/pyston/pyston
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This new programming language has the potential to make python (the dominant language for AI) run 35,000X faster.
For the benefit of future readers: https://numba.pydata.org/
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Two-tier programming language
Taichi (similar to numba) is a python library that allows you to write high speed code within python. So your program consists of slow python that gets interpreted regularly, and fast python (fully type annotated and restricted to a subset of the language) that gets parallellized and jitted for CPU or GPU. And you can mix the two within the same source file.
- Numba Supports Python 3.11
What are some alternatives?
SHA256-WebGPU - Implementation of sha256 in WGSL
NetworkX - Network Analysis in Python
numexpr - Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python, NumPy, Pandas, PyTables and more
jax - Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more
graphics_wgpu
Dask - Parallel computing with task scheduling
vswhere - Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations
cupy - NumPy & SciPy for GPU
fastplotlib - Next-gen fast plotting library running on WGPU using the pygfx rendering engine
Pyjion - Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR
three.py - Python 3D library based on three.js and Modern OpenGL
SymPy - A computer algebra system written in pure Python