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SIMD in Rust | Huon on the internet
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The problem of safe FFI bindings in Rust - Abubalay
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| | [AI summary] This post discusses the complexities of creating safe Foreign Function Interface (FFI) bindings in Rust when calling C++ code, examining tools like cxx and strategies for maintaining Rust's memory and thread-safety guarantees despite the inherent unsafety in such interactions.
| | www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk
SIMD in Pure Python | Blog
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| | [AI summary] The blog post discusses the implementation of Conway's Game of Life using Python with optimized techniques such as SWAR (Shift and Arithmetic Word) and parallel processing. The author leverages Python's native integer operations for SIMD-like acceleration, eliminating the need for explicit SIMD instructions. They also use SDL2 for rendering and achieve high frame rates through parallel execution across multiple processes. The post highlights performance gains, comparing the optimized approach with naive implementations and exploring potential further optimizations using lower-level languages or GPU acceleration.
| | rust-lang.github.io
0236-error-conventions - The Rust RFC Book
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| | [AI summary] A Rust RFC proposes formal conventions for error handling that distinguish between catastrophic errors, contract violations, and obstructions to guide library API design.
| | lwn.net
The Koka programming language [LWN.net]
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| Statically typed programming languages can help catch mismatches between the kinds of values a [...]