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by Myrmornis 2455 days ago
> The motivation behind Weld is to provide bare-metal performance for applications that rely on existing high-level APIs such as NumPy and Pandas.

With regard to Pandas this makes me pause slightly, since, while pandas contains lots of high quality and high performance implementations, the API of pandas in some places doesn’t feel well-designed (the most obvious example is indexing of data frames via square brackets and the various properties like iloc).