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<span id="cython"></span><h1>Cython Best Practices, Conventions and Knowledge<a class="headerlink" href="#cython-best-practices-conventions-and-knowledge" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>This documents tips to develop Cython code in scikit-learn.</p>
<section id="tips-for-developing-with-cython-in-scikit-learn">
<h2>Tips for developing with Cython in scikit-learn<a class="headerlink" href="#tips-for-developing-with-cython-in-scikit-learn" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<section id="tips-to-ease-development">
<h3>Tips to ease development<a class="headerlink" href="#tips-to-ease-development" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p>Time spent reading <a class="reference external" href="https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">Cython’s documentation</a> is not time lost.</p></li>
<li><p>If you intend to use OpenMP: On MacOS, system’s distribution of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">clang</span></code> does not implement OpenMP.
You can install the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">compilers</span></code> package available on <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">conda-forge</span></code> which comes with an implementation of OpenMP.</p></li>
<li><p>Activating <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/62a017efa047e9581ae7df8bbaa62cf4c0544ee4/sklearn/_build_utils/__init__.py#L68-L87">checks</a> might help. E.g. for activating boundscheck use:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">export</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">SKLEARN_ENABLE_DEBUG_CYTHON_DIRECTIVES</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="m">1</span>
</pre></div>
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</li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/quickstart/build.html#using-the-jupyter-notebook">Start from scratch in a notebook</a> to understand how to use Cython and to get feedback on your work quickly.
If you plan to use OpenMP for your implementations in your Jupyter Notebook, do add extra compiler and linkers arguments in the Cython magic.</p>
<div class="highlight-python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># For GCC and for clang</span>
<span class="o">%%</span><span class="n">cython</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="nb">compile</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="o">=-</span><span class="n">fopenmp</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">link</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="o">=-</span><span class="n">fopenmp</span>
<span class="c1"># For Microsoft's compilers</span>
<span class="o">%%</span><span class="n">cython</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="nb">compile</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">openmp</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">link</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="o">=/</span><span class="n">openmp</span>
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<li><p>To debug C code (e.g. a segfault), do use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gdb</span></code> with:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>gdb<span class="w"> </span>--ex<span class="w"> </span>r<span class="w"> </span>--args<span class="w"> </span>python<span class="w"> </span>./entrypoint_to_bug_reproducer.py
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</li>
<li><p>To have access to some value in place to debug in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cdef</span> <span class="pre">(nogil)</span></code> context, use:</p>
<div class="highlight-cython notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">with</span> <span class="k">gil</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">state_to_print</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
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</li>
<li><p>Note that Cython cannot parse f-strings with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{var=}</span></code> expressions, e.g.</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>print<span class="o">(</span>f<span class="s2">"{test_val=}"</span><span class="o">)</span>
</pre></div>
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</li>
<li><p>scikit-learn codebase has a lot of non-unified (fused) types (re)definitions.
There currently is <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues/25572">ongoing work to simplify and unify that across the codebase</a>.
For now, make sure you understand which concrete types are used ultimately.</p></li>
<li><p>You might find this alias to compile individual Cython extension handy:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># You might want to add this alias to your shell script config.</span>
<span class="n">alias</span> <span class="n">cythonX</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"cython -X language_level=3 -X boundscheck=False -X wraparound=False -X initializedcheck=False -X nonecheck=False -X cdivision=True"</span>
<span class="c1"># This generates `source.c` as if you had recompiled scikit-learn entirely.</span>
<span class="n">cythonX</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">annotate</span> <span class="n">source</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pyx</span>
</pre></div>
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<li><p>Using the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--annotate</span></code> option with this flag allows generating a HTML report of code annotation.
This report indicates interactions with the CPython interpreter on a line-by-line basis.
Interactions with the CPython interpreter must be avoided as much as possible in
the computationally intensive sections of the algorithms.
For more information, please refer to <a class="reference external" href="https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/tutorial/cython_tutorial.html#primes">this section of Cython’s tutorial</a></p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># This generates a HTML report (`source.html`) for `source.c`.</span>
<span class="n">cythonX</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">annotate</span> <span class="n">source</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pyx</span>
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</section>
<section id="tips-for-performance">
<h3>Tips for performance<a class="headerlink" href="#tips-for-performance" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p>Understand the GIL in context for CPython (which problems it solves, what are its limitations)
and get a good understanding of when Cython will be mapped to C code free of interactions with
CPython, when it will not, and when it cannot (e.g. presence of interactions with Python
objects, which include functions). In this regard, <a class="reference external" href="https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/">PEP073</a>
provides a good overview and context and pathways for removal.</p></li>
<li><p>Make sure you have deactivated <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/62a017efa047e9581ae7df8bbaa62cf4c0544ee4/sklearn/_build_utils/__init__.py#L68-L87">checks</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Always prefer memoryviews instead over <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cnp.ndarray</span></code> when possible: memoryviews are lightweight.</p></li>
<li><p>Avoid memoryview slicing: memoryview slicing might be costly or misleading in some cases and
we better not use it, even if handling fewer dimensions in some context would be preferable.</p></li>
<li><p>Decorate final classes or methods with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">@final</span></code> (this allows removing virtual tables when needed)</p></li>
<li><p>Inline methods and function when it makes sense</p></li>
<li><p>In doubt, read the generated C or C++ code if you can: “The fewer C instructions and indirections
for a line of Cython code, the better” is a good rule of thumb.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nogil</span></code> declarations are just hints: when declaring the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cdef</span></code> functions
as nogil, it means that they can be called without holding the GIL, but it does not release
the GIL when entering them. You have to do that yourself either by passing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nogil=True</span></code> to
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cython.parallel.prange</span></code> explicitly, or by using an explicit context manager:</p>
<div class="highlight-cython notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">cdef</span> <span class="kr">inline</span> <span class="kt">void</span> <span class="nf">my_func</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">nogil</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="c"># Some logic interacting with CPython, e.g. allocating arrays via NumPy.</span>
<span class="k">with</span> <span class="k">nogil</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="c"># The code here is run as is it were written in C.</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="mf">0</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This item is based on <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/cython/cython/issues/2798#issuecomment-459971828">this comment from Stéfan’s Benhel</a></p>
</li>
<li><p>Direct calls to BLAS routines are possible via interfaces defined in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sklearn.utils._cython_blas</span></code>.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="using-openmp">
<h3>Using OpenMP<a class="headerlink" href="#using-openmp" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>Since scikit-learn can be built without OpenMP, it’s necessary to protect each
direct call to OpenMP.</p>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_openmp_helpers</span></code> module, available in
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/main/sklearn/utils/_openmp_helpers.pyx">sklearn/utils/_openmp_helpers.pyx</a>
provides protected versions of the OpenMP routines. To use OpenMP routines, they
must be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cimported</span></code> from this module and not from the OpenMP library directly:</p>
<div class="highlight-cython notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">sklearn.utils._openmp_helpers</span> <span class="k">cimport</span> <span class="n">omp_get_max_threads</span>
<span class="n">max_threads</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">omp_get_max_threads</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The parallel loop, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">prange</span></code>, is already protected by cython and can be used directly
from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cython.parallel</span></code>.</p>
<section id="types">
<h4>Types<a class="headerlink" href="#types" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h4>
<p>Cython code requires to use explicit types. This is one of the reasons you get a
performance boost. In order to avoid code duplication, we have a central place
for the most used types in
<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/blob/main/sklearn/utils/_typedefs.pyd">sklearn/utils/_typedefs.pyd</a>.
Ideally you start by having a look there and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cimport</span></code> types you need, for example</p>
<div class="highlight-cython notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">from</span> <span class="nn">sklear.utils._typedefs</span> <span class="k">cimport</span> <span class="n">float32</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">float64</span>
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