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Re:Porting a Ray Tracer to Rust, Part 1 by yuriks on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @07:44AM (#8819122)
Yes, I compared Rust and Clang using similar LLVM versions and the Rust version of the code consistently beat Clang.
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Re:Porting a Ray Tracer to Rust, Part 1 by darkpore on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @08:00AM (#8819170)
Not the same version then? :)
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Re:Porting a Ray Tracer to Rust, Part 1 by kibwen on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @01:12PM (#8820370)
For the moment Rust is using a custom fork of LLVM while waiting for its patches to be upstreamed.
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Re:Porting a Ray Tracer to Rust, Part 1 by zxcdw on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:50PM (#8820797)
Hasn't this been the case like forever (at least for the past two years)?
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Re:Porting a Ray Tracer to Rust, Part 1 by kibwen on Thursday January 01, 2015 @09:07PM (#8825195)
They keep coming up with new patches to upstream. :)
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