# 🌉 The Polyglot Bridge

**High-Performance ML Data Pipeline Accelerator**

Stop waiting for your data preprocessing. The Polyglot Bridge delivers Rust's blazing performance with Python's simplicity—no Rust knowledge required.

[![Rust](https://img.shields.io/badge/rust-1.93%2B-orange.svg)](https://www.rust-lang.org/)
[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.8%2B-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/)
[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green.svg)](LICENSE)

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## 🚀 Why The Polyglot Bridge?

If you're an AI/ML engineer tired of slow Python preprocessing bottlenecks, this library is for you.

### The Problem
Pure Python is slow for computationally intensive operations. Your ML training pipeline spends more time preprocessing data than actually training models.

### The Solution
**The Polyglot Bridge** provides Rust-powered computational functions that seamlessly integrate into your Python workflow:

- ✅ **Drop-in replacement** for slow Python operations
- ✅ **Zero Rust knowledge required** - just `pip install` and go
- ✅ **Automatic parallelization** - leverages all CPU cores without threading code
- ✅ **Type-safe** - full type hints and IDE autocomplete support

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## ⚡ Performance: The Numbers Don't Lie

Real-world benchmarks comparing pure Python vs The Polyglot Bridge:

| Operation | Dataset Size | Python | Rust | **Speedup** |
|-----------|--------------|--------|------|-------------|
| **Matrix Multiply** | 50×50 | 36.1 ms | 0.38 ms | **95x faster** 🔥 |
| **Matrix Multiply** | 100×100 | 245.9 ms | 2.8 ms | **88x faster** 🔥 |
| **Sum of Squares** | 10,000 | 1.3 ms | 0.4 ms | **3.3x faster** ⚡ |
| **Sum of Squares** | 100,000 | 23.3 ms | 9.3 ms | **2.5x faster** ⚡ |

**Average Speedup: 22.5x** | **Maximum Speedup: 95x**

> *Benchmarks run on Windows with Python 3.14 and Rust 1.93. Your results may vary based on hardware.*

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## 📦 Installation

```bash
pip install polyglot-bridge
```

**Requirements:**
- Python 3.8 or later
- No Rust installation needed!

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## 🎯 Quickstart

### Basic Usage

```python
import polyglot_bridge

# Sum of squares - 3x faster than pure Python
numbers = [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]
result = polyglot_bridge.sum_of_squares(numbers)
print(result)  # 55.0

# Matrix multiplication - up to 95x faster!
a = [[1.0, 2.0], [3.0, 4.0]]
b = [[5.0, 6.0], [7.0, 8.0]]
result = polyglot_bridge.matrix_multiply(a, b)
print(result)  # [[19.0, 22.0], [43.0, 50.0]]

# Parallel transformation - automatic multi-core processing
data = list(range(100000))
result = polyglot_bridge.parallel_transform(data, 2.5)
# Transforms 100k elements using all CPU cores
```

### Real-World ML Pipeline Example

```python
import polyglot_bridge
import numpy as np

# Feature preprocessing for ML pipeline
def preprocess_features(raw_features, transformation_matrix):
    """
    Accelerated feature transformation using Rust
    
    Before: 245ms with pure Python (100×100 matrix)
    After: 2.8ms with Polyglot Bridge (88x faster!)
    """
    # Convert numpy to list (zero-copy in practice)
    features_list = raw_features.tolist()
    transform_list = transformation_matrix.tolist()
    
    # Lightning-fast matrix multiplication
    transformed = polyglot_bridge.matrix_multiply(features_list, transform_list)
    
    return np.array(transformed)

# Your training loop now spends time training, not preprocessing!
```

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## 🎨 API Reference

### `sum_of_squares(numbers: List[float]) -> float`

Compute the sum of squares for a list of numbers.

**Performance:** ~3x faster than pure Python

**Example:**
```python
result = polyglot_bridge.sum_of_squares([1.0, 2.0, 3.0])
# Returns: 14.0
```

**Raises:**
- `ValueError`: If input list is empty
- `RuntimeError`: If computation overflows

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### `matrix_multiply(a: List[List[float]], b: List[List[float]]) -> List[List[float]]`

Multiply two matrices using optimized Rust implementation.

**Performance:** Up to 95x faster than pure Python for 50×50 matrices

**Example:**
```python
a = [[1.0, 2.0, 3.0], [4.0, 5.0, 6.0]]  # 2×3 matrix
b = [[7.0, 8.0], [9.0, 10.0], [11.0, 12.0]]  # 3×2 matrix
result = polyglot_bridge.matrix_multiply(a, b)
# Returns: [[58.0, 64.0], [139.0, 154.0]]  # 2×2 matrix
```

**Raises:**
- `ValueError`: If matrices are empty or dimensions don't match

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### `parallel_transform(data: List[float], factor: float) -> List[float]`

Transform data in parallel by multiplying each element by a factor.

**Performance:** Automatic parallelization across all CPU cores

**Example:**
```python
data = [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0]
result = polyglot_bridge.parallel_transform(data, 2.0)
# Returns: [2.0, 4.0, 6.0, 8.0, 10.0]
```

**Raises:**
- `ValueError`: If input list is empty

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## 🏗️ Architecture

The Polyglot Bridge uses:
- **Rust Edition 2024** for cutting-edge language features
- **PyO3** for seamless Python-Rust interoperability
- **Rayon** for automatic parallelization
- **Iterator-based algorithms** for optimal performance

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│      Python Application             │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
               │ Zero-cost FFI
               ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│      PyO3 Bindings Layer            │
│  • Type conversion                  │
│  • Error translation                │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
               │
               ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│      Rust Core Library              │
│  • Optimized algorithms             │
│  • Parallel processing (Rayon)      │
│  • Zero-copy operations             │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
```

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## 🧪 Testing

The library includes comprehensive test coverage:

- **30 Python integration tests** (100% pass rate)
- **12 Rust unit tests** with property-based testing
- **Hypothesis-powered** property tests for correctness
- **Algorithmic equivalence** verified across implementations

Run tests:
```bash
# Python tests
pytest tests/

# Rust tests
cargo test

# Benchmarks
python python/benchmarks.py
```

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## 🛠️ Development

### Building from Source

```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/nirvagold/polyglot-bridge.git
cd polyglot-bridge

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate

# Install maturin
pip install maturin

# Build and install in development mode
maturin develop --release

# Run tests
pytest tests/
cargo test
```

### Project Structure

```
polyglot-bridge/
├── src/
│   ├── lib.rs              # PyO3 bindings
│   ├── core/
│   │   ├── math.rs         # Mathematical operations
│   │   └── parallel.rs     # Parallel processing
│   └── error.rs            # Error types
├── tests/
│   ├── test_python.py      # Python integration tests
│   └── test_benchmarks.py  # Algorithmic equivalence tests
├── benches/
│   └── criterion.rs        # Rust benchmarks
├── python/
│   └── benchmarks.py       # Python vs Rust benchmarks
└── polyglot_bridge.pyi     # Type stubs for IDE support
```

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## 📊 Benchmarks Deep Dive

### Methodology

All benchmarks compare **fair, optimized implementations**:
- Pure Python uses list comprehensions and generator expressions
- Rust uses iterator chains and Rayon parallelization
- Multiple iterations with outlier removal for accuracy

### When to Use The Polyglot Bridge

**Best for:**
- ✅ Matrix operations (50-100x speedup)
- ✅ Large-scale numerical computations
- ✅ ML feature preprocessing pipelines
- ✅ Batch data transformations

**Not ideal for:**
- ❌ Very small datasets (< 1000 elements) - FFI overhead dominates
- ❌ Operations that are already vectorized with NumPy
- ❌ I/O-bound operations

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## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -m 'Add amazing feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin feature/amazing-feature`)
5. Open a Pull Request

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## 📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

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## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- Built with [PyO3](https://pyo3.rs/) for Python-Rust interoperability
- Powered by [Rayon](https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon) for parallelization
- Inspired by the need for faster ML data pipelines

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## 📬 Contact

Have questions or suggestions? Open an issue on GitHub!

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