There was already attempt for dav1d to re-implement in rust by rav1d. It was hard to match performance: https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-perf-bounty/
There was already attempt for dav1d to re-implement in rust by rav1d. It was hard to match performance: https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-perf-bounty/
Not just performance, the code was littered with unsafe blocks and the benchmarks (IIRC) were gamed heavily by the Rust devs.
It was a dishonest effort that actually undermined the memory safety pitch.
> It was hard to match performance
They say it is 5% slower. That's close enough. I know they say it isn't but in reality that speed difference is just going to be used as an excuse by the anti-Rust crowd.