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"decreased the execution time by a factor of 3" So article is about a flew in previous versions of Rust not supporting 128-bit numbers on x86_64. But title mak
by the_new_guy_29 8y ago
"decreased the execution time by a factor of 3"
So article is about a flew in previous versions of Rust not supporting 128-bit numbers on x86_64. But title makes it sound like "switching to Rust was the breakthrough". Or am i paranoid about it..
- viraptor 8y agoThe original title is the more precise "How a Rust upgrade more than tripled the speed of my code". Also I think mentioning the version made it clear that it's about a specific version, not about rust in general.
- magduf 8y agoMaybe they should change it to: "How an upgrade to Rust 1.26 more than tripled the speed of my code"
- infogulch 8y agoThey probably wouldn't have mentioned the specific version if they were talking about switching languages instead of switching compiler versions.
- rkagerer 8y agoI'd say its more about how LLVM outperformed their previously handwritten assembly (the latter was impeded by crud from the asm! macro).
- Ygg2 8y agoThat would have done nothing, if Rust didn't stabilize u128/i128.
- codetrotter 8y ago> But title makes it sound like "switching to Rust was the breakthrough". Or am i paranoid about it.. Since titles keep changing on HN (for good reasons), I can’t be sure you saw the same title that I did, but if you did I disagree. The current title is “How Rust 1.26 more than tripled the speed of my code”. Because that title specifies a specific version number, I expected the blog post to be about exactly the kind of thing it was; some new feature or improvement in that version of Rust which would make their software run faster compared to the previous version of Rust they were using.