linebender/fearless_simd
Safer and easier SIMD
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 15 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides safe and ergonomic SIMD abstractions and intrinsics in Rust with minimal unsafe code.
- Enables safer SIMD usage by encapsulating unsafe operations, reducing developer errors and improving code safety.
- Use for implementing high-performance numeric computations requiring explicit SIMD vectorization in Rust.
- Use for developing cross-platform Rust libraries that leverage SIMD without sacrificing memory safety.
- Use for experimenting with SIMD optimizations in Rust projects while maintaining clear and maintainable code.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
Full details of how to use Fearless SIMD can be found in the core package's README. The optional
#[simd]attribute is provided by the separately versionedfearless_simd_macroscompanion package; the core package does not depend on it.This crate provides a way to use SIMD safely, both via intrinsics and safe abstractions, while containing remarkably little
unsafecode itself. The blog post A plan for SIMD contains the high level motivations, goal, and summary for Fearless SIMD. The blog post Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside describes the design and how the safety is achieved.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+92 stars over 36 days across 4 snapshot days; best day +11 on Sep 27.
Forks
41+6
Open issues
37+2
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| linebender/fearless_simd | 688 | — | 37 | 6 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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