Topics

• Innovating with Python to be better professionally and personally
  By: Drake Loud
  Experience Level: Novice
  Length: 30 Minutes
  Description:

  In this talk, I hope that you will walk away inspired on ways you might innovate in work or at home. 
  
  I'll discuss a particular personal problem that I had, and how I solved it with a solution using serverless functions and a simple UI. We will dig into the architecture and code. Where I will briefly  show how the solution was solved in Python. 

  Finally, we will end with ways to build your innovation muscles and why it matters for you personally and professionally. 

   

• The CPython JIT
  By: Jeff Glass
  Experience Level: Intermediate
  Length: 40 Minutes
  Description:

  Starting in Python 3.13, CPython includes the option to run with a Just-In-Time Compiler, which emits snippets of machine-code at runtime for added speed. The novel 'copy-and-patch' JIT CPython uses means that the Python runtime doesn't need to actually know anything about compiling this machine-code - it just 'fills in the blanks' of pre-compiled stencils.

  This talk will introduce the core concepts of CPython's Tier 2 Interpreter, its copy and patch JIT, and current active areas of exploration. It will also include notes on my own explorations with Superinstructions - sequences of multiple bytecodes compiled together for additional time savings.