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Absolutely. It’s kind of amusing to read a post that’s kind of dragging the wrong tool for the job, and then recommends another wrong tool for the job. The whole time I’m just yelling, “This is a geodatabase problem!”

There’s the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way. Wrong but faster!

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This. While reading the post, I wondered when he'd mention something about spatial databases or spatial indexes.

Agreed. As someone who often advocates for the use of Rust to speed up perf-sensitive Python functions (and in particular, in the GIS domain), this sounds like they haven't fully understood the problem or thought about how to solve it more efficiently with a spatial index (which is easily done in Geopandas, let alone PostGIS). However, the post is a bit vague on details so who really knows.

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