36 pointsby speckx17 hours ago4 comments

codemog14 hours ago
Should have given the other frontier models a chance too? What if Fable or GPT-5.6 would have found a 30% speed up? Not like a sample size of one means much though.
- enraged_camel14 hours ago
  Yeah, I'm not sure what the purpose of this article is. I don't have a lot of experience with Rust, but I think this is the type of task even Opus 4.5 could do.
- Shreysid11 hours ago
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garciasn15 hours ago
Saving you a click:
> I decided to try it out and see if it could optimize my Rust program.
> Kimi K3 had 2 recommendations, and I decided to have it pursue the SWAR optimization—SIMD Within a Register. With SWAR, a single 64-bit value is treated as 8 eight-bit values—so we can handle 8 u8 values (single-byte) at once.
> Kimi K3 took about 15 minutes for the task, and it completed it perfectly. I found the optimization sped up the program by 2%.
> It cost about $1 for the tokens on OpenRouter.
- cromka14 hours ago
  Question is whether other models would offer same optimization or was it exclusive to K3? Would have been much more interesting write-up.
- akmarinov15 hours ago
  Yeah that was a short article
- arikrahman13 hours ago
  $1 seem a lot, with a high cache hit rate it should be lower.
kxxx13 hours ago
Author couldn't be bothered to compare any other models? ok man
ur-whale14 hours ago
> Tested Kimi K3 for Coding
TLDR: Kimi K3 is good, but the data point is minuscule.
- jeffnv13 hours ago
  TL? it's like 200 words long