I optimized a Python data analytics pipeline, making it 180,000x faster with Rust! Using compiler optimizations, data structures, vectorization, parallelization, and more, I’ll share a case study on these techniques. Join me to explore the tools in a performance engineer’s toolkit.
Will Crichton is an incoming assistant professor at Brown University. His research takes a human-centered perspective on the design of programming languages and developer tools. Will's research has been widely used within the Rust community, and he has published at venues such as POPL, PLDI, OOPSLA, and CHI. Will received his PhD from Stanford University in 2022.
