https://labs.quansight.org/blog/numpy-string-ufuncs
Writing fast string ufuncs for NumPy 2.0
Lysandros Nikolaou
Published May 21, 2024
“After a huge amount of work from many people, NumPy 2.0.0 will soon be released, the first NumPy major release since 2006! Among the many new features… there was also a lot of work on improving the performance of string operations.”