How To Make Functional Programming in Python Go Fast

• pfun

  3 146 6.5 Python

  Functional, composable, asynchronous, type-safe Python.

  In pfun 0.12.0 the interpreter for the effect system was completely re-written as a Python C extension. Lets do some benchmarking to see how big a difference this actually makes in terms of performance. We'll use the performance of the the Scala library ZIO as a baseline, as the pfun effect system draws most of its inspiration from there. ZIO has a fairly extensive benchmarking suite. The most obvious benchmark for testing raw interpreter speed, without any parallelism, is called deepLeftBind (bind is the canonical name for the and_then operation, also called flatMap in Scala):

• ZIO

  59 3,987 9.5 Scala

  ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala

  

  In pfun 0.12.0 the interpreter for the effect system was completely re-written as a Python C extension. Lets do some benchmarking to see how big a difference this actually makes in terms of performance. We'll use the performance of the the Scala library ZIO as a baseline, as the pfun effect system draws most of its inspiration from there. ZIO has a fairly extensive benchmarking suite. The most obvious benchmark for testing raw interpreter speed, without any parallelism, is called deepLeftBind (bind is the canonical name for the and_then operation, also called flatMap in Scala):

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