Polars is a DataFrame library written in Rust on the Apache Arrow memory format, and the speed comes less from the language than from the model. The model? Describe your work as expressions, and the Polars query engine plans them out.
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Almost every slow Polars script lacks in terms of one of these two: its expression engine written and executing in Rust across every core at its disposal, and its query optimizer that rewrites your work before any of it runs.
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