Antonio Cuni

Dr. Antonio Cuni is a Principal Software Engineer at Anaconda. He is a core
developer of PyScript and PyPy, and one of the founders of the HPy project,
which aims to design a better and more modern C API for Python. He loves to
write tools from developers for developers, such as Pdb++, fancycompleter and
vmprof and he is creator/maintainer/contributor of numerous other open source
projects. He have also been very active in the Python community for years,
giving talks at various conferences such as EuroPython, EuroSciPy, PyCon
Italia, and many others. He regularly writes on the PyPy blog and on the HPy
blog. His main areas of interest are compilers, language implementation, TDD
and performance.


Twitter handle

@antocuni

Github

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Session

04-17
15:10
30min
The CPU in your browser: WebAssembly demystified
Antonio Cuni

In the recent years we saw an explosion of usage of Python in the browser:
Pyodide, CPython on WASM, PyScript, etc. All of this is possible thanks to the
powerful functionalities of the underlying platform, WebAssembly, which is essentially a virtual CPU
inside the browser.

General: Python & PyData Friends
B07-B08