Measuring The Speed of New Pandas 2.0 Against Polars and Datatable — Still Not Good Enough

Even though the new PyArrow backend for Pandas is bringing exciting features, it still looks disappointing in terms of speed.

Bex T.
Towards Data Science
7 min readMar 29, 2023

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People have been complaining about Pandas' speed ever since they tried reading their first…

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