Geert Jan Bex

Concepts to be discussed - aliasing in C/C++ - branching - register spilling & inlining

A section on using strace should be added to the slides on debugging.

- Check exception handling of SWIG wrapped C++ classes & Python - Check class inheritance from SWIG wrapped classes

numpy has many functions to read textual data: * `np.genfromtxt` * `np.loadtxt` * `np.fromfile` * `np.fromtxt` The performance of `np.fromtxt` is really poor, but it would be interesting to see...

Job script to run Dask should be updated to Slurm.

Pandera is an interesting framework to define schemas for dataframes ([Documentation](https://pandera.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#))

joblib is yet another way to parallelize Python code ([Documentation](https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/))