Description

 _nanobind_ is a small binding library that exposes C++ types in Python and vice versa. It is reminiscent of [Boost.Python](https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_64_0/libs/python/doc/html) and [pybind11](http://github.com/pybind/pybind11) and uses near-identical syntax. In contrast to these existing tools, nanobind is more efficient: bindings compile in a shorter amount of time, produce smaller binaries, and have better runtime performance. More concretely, [benchmarks](https://nanobind.readthedocs.io/en/latest/benchmark.html) show up to **~4× faster** compile time, **~5× smaller** binaries, and **~10× lower** runtime overheads compared to pybind11. nanobind also outperforms Cython in important metrics (**3-12×** binary size reduction, **1.6-4×** compilation time reduction, similar runtime performance). Please see the following links for tutorial and reference documentation in [HTML](https://nanobind.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) and [PDF](https://nanobind.readthedocs.io/_/downloads/en/latest/pdf/) formats.