Problemsby GlyphTrouble with Polars performance
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An enhanecment that boosts Polars's performance by 15-30%!!
### Description Hey.... I've discovered that Polars don't cache columns operations... like: here... trade_value will get computed not only once, but instead every call!!! but here: this version is much faster "15% - 30% !!" and uses much less memory.... I've wrote a script to do...
Performance discrepancy for `df.filter(...)`
### Checks - [x] I have checked that this issue has not already been reported. - [x] I have confirmed this bug exists on the [latest version](https://pypi.org/project/polars/) of Polars. ### Reproducible example ### Log output ### Issue description It appears that there is a...
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2 posts from 2 people in 1 place, about 1 a week over 30 days. Mostly on pola-rs/polars. Tools named alongside: PyPI.
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Posts about Polars with no known issue, sharing the word "performance". First post Oct 9, 2026, latest Nov 7, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
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