Re:Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
by nbraud on Sunday June 21, 2020 @12:38PM
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A bunch of different things, few of which I got actual traction on, in true ADHD form (though some of that was being unable to go to the local hackerspace, for hardware work)
I'm not yet satisfied with the performance, and I still have quite a few ideas how to improve it, but it's still more than 44 times faster than it was when I started (measured on factoring everything between 2 and 10⁷; it's a lot more on larger / more-interesting sizes)
One thing which has been rather fun and successful, is speeding up uutils' implementation of integer factorisation: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3... (uutils is a Rust reimplementation of the GNU coreutils and findutils)
I'm not yet satisfied with the performance, and I still have quite a few ideas how to improve it, but it's still more than 44 times faster than it was when I started (measured on factoring everything between 2 and 10⁷; it's a lot more on larger / more-interesting sizes)