• BatmanAoD
    192·
    3 months ago

    Πρεσυμαβλυ, ἰτ ἀλρεαδυ ὐσεδ ΣΙΜΔ, ἀνδ θατ’ς ὁ θε ἐξιστινγ ΓΝΥ ὐτιλιτυ βεατ ῾Ρυστ βυ ἀ φακτορ ὀφ 17ξ.

    • echindod
      9·
      3 months ago

      Has someone who can mostly read Greek and English. I hate this. I hate this so much.

      • BatmanAoD
        41·
        3 months ago

        It’s actually just English with Greek letters, just as the user above writes in English but uses the þ (thorn) character.

        • echindod
          1·
          3 months ago

          Yeah. I know. And I could tell, but it drives me batty. But also: thorn is an English character!!

          • BatmanAoD
            2·
            3 months ago

            Sure, Old English. But the commenter isn’t writing in old or even middle English.

        • Zahille7@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          I’ve been trying to read it for a couple minutes now and I feel like I’m too dumb to realize what it’s saying.

      • BatmanAoD
        2·
        3 months ago

        Here it is:

        Presumably, it already used SIMD, and that’s how the existing GNU utility beat Rust by a factor of 17x.