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How fast is swift? Heavy Metal Edition (feat Nardi)

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of particles, at least 100m on the cpu, hopefully beating out rust.
12th Jul 2025

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