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Speakers

Xavier Thompson

Employers on the program

  1. 2021–2024Nexedi2 talks
Events2
Conferences1
Talks2
Years active2021–2024

Appearances by year

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  • EuroPython

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Jul 8, 2024EuroPython 2024EuroPythontalkHow to Build a Python-to-C++ Compiler out of Spare Parts - and Why
as NEXEDI

A frequent topic about Python is performance: its interpreted nature inhibits optimisations, and the famous GIL limits parallelism (for now!).

Video
Jul 26, 2021EuroPython 2021 OnlineEuroPythontalkExtending Cython with GIL-free types
as Nexedi

Cython is a compiled language, largely inspired by Python, which can already provide both massive speedups and seamless interoperability with C libraries.

SlidesVideo

Frequent co-speakers

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