Installation

pip install b4n1-boost

Precompiled wheels are published for every supported platform. There is no compiler step, no build backend invocation and no system dependency to install first.

Supported platforms

Supported Python versions

The requirement is >=3.10. Wheels are built against the stable ABI, so a single wheel per platform covers every supported interpreter.

Verify the install

import b4n1_boost

status = b4n1_boost.status()
assert status["native_extension"] is True, (
    "native core did not load: %s" % status
)
print("b4n1-boost", status["version"], "ready")

If native_extension is False, pip fell back to a pure-Python path. See Status & Diagnostics — do not benchmark until this reads True.

Pinning a version

pip install b4n1-boost==0.3.12

Upgrading

pip install --upgrade b4n1-boost

After an upgrade, re-run the verification snippet. A stale cached extension from a previous version is a common source of confusing benchmark results.

Uninstalling

pip uninstall b4n1-boost

No files are written outside the virtual environment, and no background process is left running.

Installing the other SDKs

b4n1-boost shares one native core across several language SDKs: