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⚙️ SIMD in Rust 2025: Performance, Maturity, and Ecosystem Review
A must-read for Rust performance enthusiasts—clear, technical, and grounded in real-world benchmarks.
Sergey “Shnatsel” Davidoff’s in-depth analysis details the state of SIMD support in Rust across architectures. It compares autovectorization, portable abstractions, and raw intrinsics, evaluating crates like pulp, macerator, and std::simd for performance and completeness.
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🔁 Löb and möb: Strange Loops in Haskell
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🐍 Snakemake: Workflow Automation Between Power and Portability
A thoughtful technical critique showing how data engineers weigh flexibility against maintainability in complex pipelines.
A detailed review of Snakemake, the workflow engine for data science and bioinformatics. It highlights strengths like DAG-based scheduling and HPC integration but notes design limits in its DSL and configuration model that affect portability.
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