Vectorized h3?

h3-comparison.py

# From https://github.com/ajfriend/h3_example_package
import numpy as np
from h3_example_package.geo import latlng_to_cell_vect
from h3 import api


N = 100000
lats, lngs = np.random.uniform(0, 90, N), np.random.uniform(0, 90, N)
res = 9

lats = np.array(lats, dtype=np.float64)
lngs = np.array(lngs, dtype=np.float64)
out = np.zeros(len(lats), dtype="uint64")

%timeit latlng_to_cell_vect(lats, lngs, res, out)
# 48.6 ms ± 341 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

latlngs = [(float(lat), float(lng)) for lat, lng in zip(lats, lngs)]

%timeit [api.basic_int.latlng_to_cell(lat, lng, res=9) for lat, lng in latlngs]
# 57.6 ms ± 95.6 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

%timeit [api.numpy_int.latlng_to_cell(lat, lng, res=9) for lat, lng in latlngs]
# 58 ms ± 536 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)