OK, well. I ran /autoresearch on the the liquid codebase. 53% faster combined parse+render time, 61% fewer object allocations. This is pr

kept by eddie mar 13

Using an automated research tool on the Liquid template engine yields 53% faster parse+render and 61% fewer allocations, though possibly overfit.

Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke used the autoresearch pattern with a coding agent to achieve 53% faster parse+render and 61% fewer allocations in the Liquid template engine.
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Symmetries in boolean scans
The article shows that by exploiting symmetries of boolean scans, only three primitives (∧, <, ≠) need fast implementations to derive all others efficiently.
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Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering s
Fable rewrote the TerminalTextEffects Python library in Rust using 11M tokens, reducing startup time from 87ms to 2ms and boosting rendering speed 9.6x with zero dependencies in a 3MB executable.
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