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Const-me on May 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Rust 1.26 more than tripled the speed of my co...

Their assembly implementation can be improved, at least when targeting modern hardware.

Here’s an article explaining how to use new instructions to implement large integers multiplication: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

nonsince on May 14, 2018 [–]

If you use Rust's equivalent of `-march=native` you get faster code that can target modern hardware. We would have to get another factor-of-two speedup for the maintainance burden of using inline assembly to be worthwhile.

https://gist.github.com/Vurich/5cb83c773e90fc7a463ccb58e1dad...

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