To memoize a function in Python, we can use a utility supplied in Python’s standard library—the functools.lru_cache decorator. lru_cache isn’t hard to use.

Monty Python co-stars John Cleese, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam have reunited to celebrate Palin‘s 81st birthday. John Cleese, who recently revealed he is “surprisingly poor” despite his ...

But Cython can also be used to incrementally accelerate Python functions, chiefly ones that perform math. The downside is that Cython uses its own peculiar syntax to work its magic, so porting ...