# AdamNiederer/faster

SIMD for humans

Repository: https://github.com/AdamNiederer/faster
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/adamniederer-faster
Language: Rust
License: MPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: simd, cross-platform, optimization, intrinsics
Last push: 2023-08-29T20:41:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3223, "days_push": 1100, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1600, forks 52 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:09.533300+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: math, developer-tools
- domain: performance, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform, rust
- tags: simd, intrinsics, vectorization, optimization, algorithms

## Member repositories
- AdamNiederer/faster (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.533300+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:52:50.099275+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/faster (fetched 2026-08-29T11:24:20.393031+00:00, sha 692680b1339b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.