Rust Performance Resources

A curated list of resources for optimizing code, with a focus on Rust.

General

Rust Specific

• The Rust Performance Book (great starting point for beginners and those new to Rust)
• How to avoid bounds checks in Rust (without unsafe!)

Performance Cheat Sheets

• Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
• Bit Twiddling Hacks

Open Source Books

• Algorithms for Modern Hardware
• Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs

Memory

• Array of Structs vs. Struct of Arrays
• Data alignment for speed: myth or reality?

Floats

• Taming Float Sums

Tools and Libraries

Profiling

• Samply

Benchmarking

1. Criterion.rs
2. Divan

Multithreading

• Rayon
• crossbeam

SIMD

Crates

• Portable SIMD API
• soa-rs
• SIMD-itertools

Vectorized Solutions

• Parallel Prefix Sum with Simd

Domain Specific Resources

HFT

• When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++

FFT

• Construction of a High-Performance FFT
• Mixed Data Layout Kernels for Vectorized Complex Arithmetic
• Notes on FFTs: for implementers

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