Learning SIMD with Rust by Finding Planets (2018)

You may enjoy my video tutorial on SIMD Intrinsics as well:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4Gs_CA_vm3o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4Gs_CA_vm3o</a><p>I also use Rust but its perfectly fine for learning about intrinsics in C&#x2F;C++ or .NET as well. I cover some of the fundamental strategies for using them well, how to lay out data in memory, how to deal with branches, etc.

&gt; After running benchmarks with all the variants and planets, the improvement is about 9% to 12%.<p>Pretty weak speedup, maybe a straight up n-body implementation would see closer to the 8x theoretical speedup.

&gt; AVX functions start with _mm256_<p>I don&#x27;t know anything about Rust, but a nicer word is probably &quot;intrinsics&quot;. They usually compile to a single instruction.

This looks kinda gross to me. Do the rust developers not want to emulate what ipsc and cuda do? Writing intrinsics by hand is not what I expect from a 2019 language.