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Numba is an Open Source NumPy-aware optimizing compiler for Python
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sponsored by Continuum Analytics, Inc. It uses the
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remarkable LLVM compiler infrastructure to compile Python syntax to
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machine code.
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It is aware of NumPy arrays as typed memory regions and so can speed-up
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code using NumPy arrays. Other, less well-typed code will be translated
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to Python C-API calls effectively removing the "interpreter" but not removing
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the dynamic indirection.
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Numba is also not a tracing JIT. It *compiles* your code before it gets
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run either using run-time type information or type information you provide
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in the decorator.
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Numba is a mechanism for producing machine code from Python syntax and typed
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data structures such as those that exist in NumPy.
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