Maybe coming from a diff place? It seemed fair: I spent an hour or two today basically undoing some canonical high-level Python/Pandas abstractions into canonic

Maybe coming from a diff place? It seemed fair: I spent an hour or two today basically undoing some canonical high-level Python/Pandas abstractions into canonical numpy+C, which was exactly this kind of stuff. We normally do GPU offloading (rapids.ai / blazingsql), though today's kernel was the uncomfortable inbetween where latency mattered but the task is too small for the offloading communication hit. We do the same kind of stuff (and a bit cleaner / more predictable) in JS with typed arrays. I wouldn't call that blazingly fast python though, that's barely approaching C, which is also slow. Fast is maxing out SIMD + cores + GPUs + bandwidth, so should aim for ~20X+ faster than regular C...