An experimental library for accelerating arcade using rust. The module can be imported and monkey patch arcade replacing functions and types with rust versions.

import arcade_accelerate
arcade_accelerate.bootstrap()

• Install maturin
  • pip install maturin
  • (Package crated with 0.14.15)
• Install the arcade version you are comparing with
  • Preferably install from source in editable mode

Install the create as module in the current virtualenv

# debug
maturin develop
# release
maturin develop --release

Build python package for release

# wheel
maturin build -i python --release
# sdist
maturin build -i python --release --sdist

When performance testing always use the release build.

This project has a python module and a rust module.

• arcade_accelerate - python module
• arcade_accelerate_rust - rust module

The python module just contains some helper functions to bootstrap the acceleration.

The tests directory contains some performance tests.

• pyo3 user guide
• maturin user guide