High school is out so I am learning SIMD instruction sets, like AVX2 and SSE, and using these to speed up Hamming/Levenshtein distance calculations in Rust. Preliminary testing shows a 20x speedup using vectorized SIMD operations! The end goal is a full Rust library for edit distance routines.
Sneak peek of the code: https://twitter.com/daniel_c0deb0t/status/124224838155819008...