Julien Danjou • 9/3/2018

High-Performance in Python with Zero-Copy and the Buffer Protocol

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This technical article demonstrates how slicing large byte strings in Python creates costly memory copies. It introduces the buffer protocol (PEP 3118) and memoryview objects as zero-copy alternatives for efficient data manipulation, using memory_profiler to illustrate performance gains.

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