Performance, lazy execution, and interop trade-offs.
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Polars vs pandas: when should you switch in 2025-26?
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Polars is a Rust-based DataFrame with lazy query planning and true parallelism; pandas is NumPy-based eager. Polars wins on large data, pandas wins on ecosystem maturity.
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