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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by BiteCode_dev on Saturday September 07, 2024 @04:37PM (#41476321)
Yes, but it's a completely unrelated matter: even with a JIT you'll want compiled extensions since you can't beat hand crafted SIMD for the scientific stacks or machine learning.
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by pjmlp on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:05AM (#41479415)
Ever heard of intrinsics?

Maybe spend some time reading about other JIT languages expose SIMD to developers, without requiring folks to go down to C.

Which incidentally is what all those Python DSLs for GPGPU APIs also do, with the caveat of not being that useful for general purpose programming outside machine learning algorithms.

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