About

This is a small project demonstrating using Rust to speedup Python. See my blog post part 1 and part 2.

How to use

Prerequisites

• Rust
• Python

Installation

1. Create a virtual environment and activate it:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

2. Install the Python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Build the Rust library and install it in the virtual environment:

maturin develop --release

4. Start the Jupyter lab:

python -m jupyter lab

Open mandelbrot.ipynb and run the cells.