Lightning fast Python queries

Python has been among the most popular programming languages for some time now, largely because of its ease of access, readability, and incredible wealth of packages at its users' fingertips. Despite its popularity, Python is derided for being slow. This isn't without reason. Python's global interpreter lock (GIL) can make single-threaded code faster, but prevents concurrency. Deephaven's engine takes full advantage of concurrency, so that benefit can be lost in Python queries. This is also not the only limitation introduced …

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