AdamNiederer/faster

Package still active?

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cvanelteren commented

This crate is listed by the official docs for simd operations yet the current version 0.50 gives tons of compile errors, i.e. unfound symbols. Is this crate still active?

AdamNiederer commented

Hey there!

Sorry, haven't had much time to work on this crate as of late, but I do intend to get back to it - unfortunately, the best hardware I have at the moment can't do AVX2, so I've been prioritizing other things until I have something that doesn't have to wait on a CI build.

I just published 0.5.1, which should compile on the latest nightly. A quick benchmark run reveals that LLVM hasn't caught up too much in the last 2 years, so hopefully the crate will still be useful in the meantime!

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GabrielMajeri commented

@AdamNiederer We could help with the AVX2 parts if you open issues describing what needs to be fixed/added :)

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cvanelteren commented

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately with the lastest rust, installing the package results in
error: specified package faster v0.5.1 has no binaries

  • rustc 1.46.0
AdamNiederer commented

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately with the lastest rust, installing the package results in
error: specified package faster v0.5.1 has no binaries

* rustc 1.46.0

Are you installing via cargo install? faster is a library, so it shouldn't have any command-line binaries. You can use faster by including it in the Cargo.toml of the project you wish to speed up.

cvanelteren commented

Ah thanks I am converting from C++ and testing the waters. Forgot to put faster back in Cargo.toml. Thanks ;-)!