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October 2024

Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python
We are due for our next live session.
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Abhinav Upadhyay
The CAP Theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something
No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
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Abhinav Upadhyay
Speculative Decoding and Beyond: A Survey of Speculative Decoding Techniques
What is speculative decoding, how it works and what are some of the recent advances in this area?
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Abhinav Upadhyay
CPython's Garbage Collector and its Impact on Application Performance
Learn how the knowledge of CPython internals translate into performance insights for your code
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Abhinav Upadhyay

September 2024

August 2024

The Design & Implementation of the CPython Virtual Machine
A deep dive into CPython's bytecode instruction format and execution engine internals
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Abhinav Upadhyay
CPython Internals: What Happens Before Bytecode Execution Starts
Learn about runtime initialization, parsing and compilation of the Python code into bytecode leading to execution on the virtual machine
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Abhinav Upadhyay
(Live Session) Performance Thinking: Six Key Lessons from 1BRC
Over the past year as I’ve dived deep into systems programming, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for the finer details that drive performance…
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Abhinav Upadhyay
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython
How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in…
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