Using Polars Plugins for a 14x Speed Boost with Rust

Achieving high speed outside the native Polars library

Introduction

Polars is taking the world by storm thanks to it’s speed, memory efficiency, and beautiful API. If you want to know how powerful it is, look no further than the DuckDB Benchmarks. And these aren’t even using the most recent version of Polars.

For all the amazing things Polars can do though, it has not traditionally been a better solution than Pandas to do ALL the …

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