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onedognight on June 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The State of Servo, Mozilla's parallelized Rust br...

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> in Rust to ensure the language can do it

When creating a language you want to write as many things as possible in it to vet the design. See Go, e.g. http://golang.org/src/pkg/image/jpeg/fdct.go.

obtu on June 27, 2012 [–]

JPEG is a good benchmark because it is a bottleneck, heavily optimised with SIMD, and still amenable to some parallelisation. That doesn't apply to text layout.

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