Finding the right book can make a big difference, especially when you’re just starting out or trying to get better. We’ve ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

JIT compiler stack up against PyPy? We ran side-by-side benchmarks to find out, and the answers may surprise you.

This will take a few minutes. Attention: the generated file has a size of approx. 12 GB, so make sure to have enough diskspace. If you're running the challenge with a non-Java language, there's a ...

Everything on a computer is at its core a binary number, since computers do everything with bits that represent 0 and 1. In order to have a file that is "plain text", so human readable with minimal ...

Abstract: Tracing file I/O operations in Linux is critical for understanding and optimizing application performance, particularly in I/O-intensive environments. However, the choice of tracing tool can ...

Written originally to see if file I/O in CodeHS.com works with their version of Python 3.8.18 (it doesn't).

Abstract: Parallelisation, serial optimisation, compiler tuning, and many more techniques are used to optimise and improve the performance scaling of parallel programs. One area which is frequently ...