How to hash, index, profile, multi-thread, and SIMD your way to incredible speeds.
    • snaggen@programming.dev
      81·
      1 year ago

      But isn’t it kind of obvious that if you are able to do 180k times improvement, then the baseline is probably not very impressive to begin with. Still, that doesn’t take away that the optimizations were impressive, and that it was interesting to read about it.

      • Turun@feddit.de
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think your last sentence has one negation too much.

        If it was interesting to read about it, then the criticism did not take away that the optimizations were impressive.

        • snaggen@programming.dev
          3·
          1 year ago

          Fixed it… I come from a language culture were we like our negations :) Also, not native english speaker, so combine the two and you are in for a ride!

    • bluGill@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      With rust is the joke as if you couldn’t do it otherwise. Maybe c would be only 179,999x faster, or FORTRAN 180,001x, (numbers made up). Python could probably be made 60,000x faster as well.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Yet it’s a fine baseline. The actual speedup for switching to rust was 8x, the rest was all about changing data structures, using SIMD, parallelism and batching.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Their actual speedup for switching languages was 8x. The rest was all about using better data structures and parallelism.