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).
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