Rusty-RLP

Rapid fast RLP serialization / deserialization for Python.

As the name suggest, rusty-rlp is written in Rust and based on the battle-tested, MIT-licensed rlp implementation that is also used by OpenEthereum.

Usage

from rusty_rlp import decode_raw, encode_raw

encoded = encode_raw(b'some_string')
decoded = decode_raw(encoded)

Running the tests

The library exposes a pure Python API and all tests are implemented in python_tests.py

Run the tests:

make test

Note: There do exists some tests implemented in Rust that can be run with cargo tests but those do not test this library but the underlying rlp library instead. They exist merely to prove some assumptions about the underlying library.

Benchmarks

We provide some benchmarks against pyrlp.

	Encoding (msec/loop)	Decoding (msec/loop)
PyRLP	0.016	0.014
rusty-rlp	0.00173 (~9x)	0.00595 (~2.35x)

Running the benchmarks

make benchmark