"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance in Rust
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance in Rust
I was just recently going through some old episodes from Software Engineering Radio when I came across this one episode featuring Casey Muratori, where he goes through some of his thoughts around his video from February 2023, titled "‘Clean’ Code, Horrible Performance". I was actually already aware ...
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It would be interesting to see if an iterator instead of a manual for loop would increase the performance of the base case.
My guess is not, because the compiler should know they are equivalent, but would be interesting to check anyway.
I wonder if the compiler checks to see if the calls are pure and are therefore safe to run in parallel. It seems like the kind of thing the Rust compiler should be able to do.
If by parallel you mean across multiple threads in some map-reduce algorithm, the compiler will not do that automatically since that would be both extremely surprising behavior and in most cases, would make performance worse (it'd be interesting to see just how many shapes you'd need to iterate over before you start seeing performance benefits from map-reduce). If you're referring to vectorization, then the Rust compiler does automatically do that in some cases, and I imagine it depends on how the area is calculated and whether the implementation can be inlined.
Do you mean this for loop?
for shape in &shapes { accum += shape.area(); }That does use an iterator
for-in-loops, or to be more precise, iterator loops, are a simple syntactic sugar over a common practice within Rust, which is to loop over anything that implements IntoIterator until the iterator returned by .into_iter() returns None (or the loop body uses break).
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I think they meant using for accumulating, like this:
shapes.iter().map(Shape::area).sum()Yes. That's what I meant.
Though I heavily expect the rust compiler to produce identical assembly for both types of iteration.
Oh, I see. That would be interesting to benchmark too 👍
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Off-topic, but does that actually work? I would assume OpenAI would just ignore it and you'd have to prove that they did so.
Dunno if it works. AI has been tricked into revealing it's training data, so it's possible that it happens and they are sued for using copyrighted material.
This is my drop in the ocean.
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Maybe I'll join you. :)
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I'm on Wayland, but I'm sure I can figure something out.
I do most of my lemmy-ing on mobile, so I'll probably make a bot to auto-edit my posts or something.
Have fun! I'm curious how you'll do it. If you figure out a way on Wayland, it would be great to read about it!
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