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Polars Ruby

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Ruby bindings to the Rust Polars DataFrame library. In the wroclove.rb 2026 CSV-parsing benchmark it gave the biggest speedup — roughly 22× faster than the Ruby stdlib CSV on 1M rows, and ~100MB post-load memory on a 30MB CSV (vs 400MB for stdlib Ruby CSV). Supports a low-memory flag that trades some speed for a smaller memory footprint. Used in production by the speaker to parse ~300MB CSVs within a single web request without caching or pre-calculation. Relatively unknown in the Ruby community at the time of the talk (about two hands raised in a conference-room audience).

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Polars Ruby tool
Benchmarked option; fastest at ~22× over stdlib

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wroclove.rb 2026 Lightning Talks 2026-04-22 08:41
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