4th November 2025
Research
H3 Library Performance Benchmark
— A systematic performance benchmark was conducted on two prominent Python libraries implementing Uber's H3 geospatial indexing system: h3-py (official, C-based) and h3o-python (Rust-based). Results show h3o-python consistently outperforms h3-py on core operations, achieving over 2x speedup for coordinate conversions and up to 13x faster neighbor queries, while area calculations remain comparable.
Recent articles
- Live blog: Code w/ Claude 2026 - 6th May 2026
- Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like - 6th May 2026
- LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor - 29th April 2026