AdamNiederer/faster

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1600 stars · 52 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Rust library providing an ergonomic, human-friendly API for explicit SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) vectorization. It lets developers write SIMD-accelerated code using iterators and simple operations without hand-writing platform-specific intrinsics.

Use cases

• speed up numeric loops with SIMD in Rust
• write portable vectorized code without intrinsics
• optimize image or signal processing kernels
• accelerate bulk arithmetic on slices of floats or integers
• avoid hand-writing x86 and ARM SIMD code

When to choose

• you want SIMD performance with a simple, iterator-based Rust API
• you need cross-platform vectorization without per-architecture intrinsics
• you are optimizing hot numeric loops and want readable code

When to avoid

• you need maximum control over specific CPU instruction sets and cache behavior
• you require guaranteed nightly compiler features or the very latest SIMD ISA support
• you need a library with frequent updates and active maintenance

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

math developer-tools performance cross-platform cross-platform rust simd intrinsics vectorization optimization algorithms

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