> 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.
akmarinov•11h ago
Yeah that was a short article
cromka•11h ago
Question is whether other models would offer same optimization or was it exclusive to K3? Would have been much more interesting write-up.
arikrahman•9h ago
$1 seem a lot, with a high cache hit rate it should be lower.
codemog•11h 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_camel•11h 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.
ur-whale•10h ago
> Tested Kimi K3 for Coding
TLDR: Kimi K3 is good, but the data point is minuscule.
jeffnv•9h ago
TL? it's like 200 words long
kxxx•9h ago
Author couldn't be bothered to compare any other models? ok man
garciasn•11h ago
> 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.
akmarinov•11h ago
cromka•11h ago
arikrahman•9h ago