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# fastavro
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-**If you're interested in maintaining this package - please drop me a line**
-
-The current Python `avro` package is packed with features but dog slow.
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-On a test case of about 10K records, it takes about 14sec to iterate over all of
-them. In comparison the JAVA `avro` SDK does it in about 1.9sec.
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-`fastavro` is less feature complete than `avro`, however it's much faster. It
-iterates over the same 10K records in 2.9sec, and if you use it with PyPy it'll
-do it in 1.5sec (to be fair, the JAVA benchmark is doing some extra JSON
+Because the Apache Python `avro` package is written in pure Python, it is
+relatively slow. In one test case, it takes about 14 seconds to iterate through
+a file of 10,000. By comparison, the JAVA `avro` SDK reads the same file in
+1.9 seconds.
+
+The `fastavro` library was written to offer performance comparable to the Java
+library. With regular CPython, `fastavro` uses C extensions which allow it to
+iterate the same 10,000 record file in 1.7 seconds. With PyPy, this drops to 1.5
+seconds (to be fair, the JAVA benchmark is doing some extra JSON
encoding/decoding).
-If the optional C extension (generated by [Cython][cython]) is available, then
-`fastavro` will be even faster. For the same 10K records it'll run in about
-1.7sec.
-
`fastavro` supports the following Python versions:
* Python 2.7

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classifiers=[
- 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',
+ 'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
'Intended Audience :: Developers',
'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
+ 'Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux',
+ 'Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows',
+ 'Operating System :: MacOS',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
+ 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython',
'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy',
'Programming Language :: Python',
'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries',
+ 'Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Information Analysis',
],
install_requires=install_requires,
extras_require={

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