State of SIMD in Rust in 2026
The gist
Sergey Davidoff published "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026" on Sep 25, 2026.
The survey maps Rust's SIMD library options and his own move into Fearless SIMD.
How it unfolded
- Sep 23, 2026This Week in Rust 670 is published, listing Rust community meetups and events.
- Sep 24, 2026The encoding_rs crates.io page notes its ASCII acceleration was completely rewritten in 2026, targeting scenarios with simd-accel and std enabled, plus SIMD support on aarch64.
- Sep 25, 2026Davidoff publishes "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026"; he says he invited authors of std::simd, wide, pulp and macerator to review a draft while retaining editorial control.