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Optimizing Python functions using Rust for significant speed improvements.
Resumen
Rust is gaining popularity among tech giants, with even the White House recommending its use for critical software development. Transitioning from dynamically typed languages like Python to Rust can be challenging. This content delves into leveraging Rust to enhance Python code performance significantly. It provides a comparison of finding prime numbers in Python and Rust, showcasing the speed difference between the two implementations. The article demonstrates how to find the nth prime number in both languages and measures the time taken for execution, highlighting the efficiency gains achievable by incorporating Rust into Python workflows.
Estadísticas
Our Python function implementation took 0.64 milliseconds to find the 50th prime number.
Time taken using Python Prime finder: 0.64 milliseconds per iteration.