From the library's author:<p>> Why is it twice as fast? Or why can't the native library not be twice as fast?<p>> It’s implemented from scratch. The old client cannot be due to inefficient design of the internals, as well as years of maintaining legacy APIs!<p>Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/matteocollina/status/1361364063620628480" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/matteocollina/status/1361364063620628480</a>