#rust

GitHub says one engineer and agents ported Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines

GitHub said one engineer and a team of agents ported the GitHub Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines of production code while retaining code quality.

Pedro Cuenca: tokenizers v1 (Rust) is 3 to 30 times faster, coming soon to transformers

Pedro Cuenca said tokenizers v1 (Rust) is 3 to 30 times faster, with an opt-out tokenization training crate, additional optimizations, and extensive benchmarks. He said it is coming soon to transformers.