i ran a quick experiment where instead of doing boxing the way its done in the beam currently, i used a different boxing (NaN strategy and there was a 10x speedup

oh, I didn't recognize your username here! It's been ages since I've seen you. Hope you'll be in Chicago in September.

i will not, sorry. but ill probably be at exmex

I’ll have to come up for the NYC meetup.

Is that translates to real workloads you should open a pr.