Rudi Floren
@valkum.bsky.social
Software-Engineer (mostly Rust), Infra-wrangler, Musician
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Rust slower than C? This cannot stand…
Let yourself be nerdsniped for cash!
Let yourself be nerdsniped for cash!
We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works great except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-p...
$20,000 rav1d AV1 Decoder Performance Bounty
In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2...
www.memorysafety.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Rust slower than C? This cannot stand…
Let yourself be nerdsniped for cash!
Let yourself be nerdsniped for cash!
Why do we get Rust advisories for unmaintained crates on a Friday afternoon?
March 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Why do we get Rust advisories for unmaintained crates on a Friday afternoon?
@nrempel.com time for a folding bot startup.
Suppose you could buy a laundry folding bot for $1k. It's the size of a typical dryer. You dump in fresh laundry, it pops it out sorted and folded in a hamper.
How fast would it have to go per item to be worth it for you?
How fast would it have to go per item to be worth it for you?
January 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
@nrempel.com time for a folding bot startup.