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Rust supports SIMD intrinsics

• eigenvalue 3y ago
  Yes, and I believe the latest Rust toolchain is even able to automatically vectorize certain operations using SIMD primitives without explicitly specifying them in the Rust code. There has been a lot of recent work in Rust and LLVM to support that sort of thing, although that stuff is a bit over my pay grade.
  • steveklabnik 3y ago
    That's not "the latest" Rust toolchain, LLVM has been able to do this for a long time. Of course, it gets better and better over time.
    • eigenvalue 3y ago
      Yes, you're right of course. I meant more that it's getting better recently, and it's an active area of work in the Rust and LLVM dev communities. So if your last experience with this was a few years ago, it's worth checking it out again because it's actively improving.