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FireDucks: Pandas but Faster
My main background is a hedge fund professional, so I deal with finance data all the time and so far the Pandas library has been an indispensable tool in my...
I have around +/- 30 thousand lines of Pandas code, so you can understand why I've been hesitant to rewrite them to Polars, despite my enthusiasm for speed and optimization. The sheer scale of the task has led to repeated delays, as I weigh the potential benefits of a faster and more efficient library against the significant effort required to refactor my existing code. It was launched on October 2023 by a team of programmers from NEC Corporation which have 30+ years of experience developing supercomputers, read the announcement here.
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