killercup

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Rust game engine Bevy's sixth birthday bevy.org

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Comment · 4 months ago

Is this the way forward for the EU? Genuinely curious: Are there any EU providers that host the very good recent Chinese open weight models? Like, an EU-based alternative to DeepSeek's own API offering? To me, that sounds like an easier business to turn profitable, albeit maybe less impressive.

Comment · 3 years ago

Because this code block looks quite complex, I want to add that it can also be just

    smol::block_on(async {
        println!("I'm async!");
    });

(I thought tokio had a helper like this too but could only find `tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().unwrap().block_on(async { println!("I'm async!"); });`.)

Comment · 5 years ago

Ripgrep includes one of the most prominent algorithms from Hyperscan internally for some expressions.

Longer story: Ripgrep uses Rust's regex library, which uses the Aho-Corasick library. That does not just provide the algorithm it is named after, but also "packed" ones using SIMD, including a Rust rewrite of the [Teddy algorithm][1] from the Hyperscan project.

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/aho-corasick/tree/4499d7fdb41c...

Comment · 5 years ago

> If the work is done I expect Rust to be faster than C and C++ for the same reason that C++ can sometimes be faster than C: a more advanced type system can allow better optimization in many cases.

Every now and then I check in on whether LLVM can deal with rustc spamming "noalias" on all references. You can find the latest change in [1]. While in theory this unlocks _a ton_ of optimizations, noalias is used very rarely in C/C++ code so these compiler passes are not exercised a lot by existing LLVM tests and/or not realized in full.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/82834

Comment · 5 years ago

Technically, he only got tested the day after Christmas, so I'm assuming they picked the more dramatic date.

Comment · 5 years ago

I'm implying they did not read the article.

Comment · 5 years ago

There's no need to take that bet if you can instead just read the article, however. No idea why you bring up a German statistic.

Comment · 5 years ago

This is as suprising as the amount of comments assuming the nurse is female.

Edit for those who just comment after reading the headline: The article clearly states the nurse is Matthew W. and uses the he pronoun in the following sentences.

Comment · 6 years ago

dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149969

Comment · 6 years ago

> I don’t understand what a ‘packer’ is

You've found the right series of articles then!

Comment · 6 years ago

Start at part 1.

No, he doesn't give you an answer, but you might just find it interesting enough to no longer have the qusstion.

Comment · 6 years ago