Lift your Speed Limits with Cython

[LINK:http://cython.org] Cython is not just a Python compiler or a native code wrapping tool, but also a programming language in its own right that mixes Python with C and C++. The fact that you can simply drop Python code into it and compile it gives a very low entry level into performance optimisation by statically compiling your critical code and then tuning it into fast C to make it run faster. In this talk, I will show a few use cases where the compilation of regular Python code leads to faster execution, and present ways how to make the code run much faster.