If you are working in the area of scientific computing, in academia or industry, most likely you are using Python in some form. Traditionally Python is described as slow when it comes to performance and there are number of discussions about speed compared to native C/C++ applications ^{1 2}. The goal of this post is not to argue about performance but to summarise various tools that can help to find out performance bottlenecks before coming to such conclusions. In the previous post, I summarised more than 90 profiling tools that can be used for analysing performance of C/C++/Fortran applications.… Read the rest