Skin in the Game

The article, Analyzing Data 180,000x Faster with Rust, first presents some unoptimized Python code, and then shows the process of rewriting and optimizing the code in Rust, resulting in a 180,000x speed-up. The author notes:

When you commit to rewriting existing software, you are committing to a waterfall process. To succeed you need to move through the process one phase at a time. First you need to determine the requi…

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