Memory bound

Q: How deeply does Fast Python: High performance techniques for large datasets cover memory bound?

Connects profiling with Python memory costs and distributed data movement, but does not detail memory-hardware internals.

As explained in Fast Python: High performance techniques for large datasets

A memory-bound workload is one whose performance is limited primarily by the rate of accessing or transferring data rather than by computational throughput.

A memory-bound workload is limited more by accessing or transferring data than by computational throughput. Profile before optimizing: Python data-structure allocations and I/O can contribute to memory or speed bottlenecks. section 2.0

In distributed processing, data movement can also constrain progress: a Dask maximum requires partition results to be transferred and combined in a single task. This is a parallelism bottleneck, not necessarily a memory-bound workload. section 10.2.3

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profilingmeasured by · Profiling is the measurement and analysis of a program’s runtime behavior and resource use to characterize performance and identify bottlenecks.
compute-boundcontrasts with · A computation is compute-bound when its performance is limited primarily by available processor or arithmetic capacity rather than memory transfer, input/output, or other resources.
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