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Charlie Marsh: uv: An Extremely Fast Python Package Manager
Charlie Marsh of Astral explains how uv, a Rust Python package manager, got so fast. He covers allocators, concurrency, zero-copy tricks and the challenges of Python packaging.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a fascinating technical account of the optimizations behind uv's speed.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jane Street
- Topic
- python packaging performance
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I recently watched a talk by the author of uv that was surprisingly fascinating [1]. He goes into a few of the more notable hacks that they had to come up with to make it as fast as it is. The most interesting thing for …
kolja005 on Hacker News · 2024-11
In Using uv with PyTorchThere is a talk about it from one of the authors here: [VIDEO] tl;dw Rust, a fast SAT solver, micro-optimisation of key components, caching, and hardlinks/CoW.
globular-toast on Hacker News · 2025-06
In uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in RustTo be fair, the whole post isn't very good IMO, regardless of ChatGPT involvement, and it's weird how some people seem to treat it like some kind of revelation. I mean, of course it wasn't specifically Rust that made it fast, it's really a banal …
krick on Hacker News · 2025-12
In How uv got so fast
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