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part of what prompted the work on plait.py was that joke2k/faker was reasonably slow to generate 10K fake names for me: https://paste.ubuntu.com/26354987/ https

• Dowwie 9y ago
  Well done, then! :) Is plait a drop-in replacement for faker?
  • logv 9y ago
    it's a drop in replacement for stympy/faker, but not joke2k faker joke2k/faker is python and the data is stored in code (all or most of the random values are in .py files around the codebase), perhaps leading to its slowness. stympy/faker is ruby and its random values are in yaml files, with some fields defined as ruby functions (those are not supported by plait.py). can use 'plait -l' and 'plait -ll name' and 'plait -ll name.name' (more info in the README) to get a list of fake fields available.
    • Dowwie 9y ago
      if/when you tire with the latest performance improvement, consider porting to Rust and adapting it to python via cffi