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Rust Gains Greater SIMD Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 25 August 2015 at 09:44 AM EDT. 1 Comment

A new SIMD scheme is now available in the latest nightly versions of the Rust programming language.

Mozilla Research has been working on improving SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) parallelism in Rust that's simple to use.

Results so far are promising and if you wish to learn more about the new Rust SIMD possibilities, read this blog post penned yesterday that does also include some initial benchmarks for the SIMD support.

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