Comment by garciasn
20 hours ago
Saving you a click:
> 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.
Question is whether other models would offer same optimization or was it exclusive to K3? Would have been much more interesting write-up.
Yeah that was a short article
$1 seem a lot, with a high cache hit rate it should be lower.