high-performance

Andree Toonk releases Wireblast, a 100 Gbps packet generator written in Go using AF_XDP for line-rate packet transmission.

SDL_gp is a minimal, high-performance 2D graphics painting library for SDL3, ported from sokol_gp, providing a simple resource management system.

This paper presents Phantom, a tool that co-opts Linux processes to run unmodified applications within a high-performance discrete-event network simulator, demonstrating significant speed improvements over existing tools like Shadow and NS-3.

Ruf debuts its new B8 flat-eight engine at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, producing over 1,000 hp and fitted to a modified CTR3 test mule called the Erprober.

QuixiAI released QuixiCore, a family of native high-performance AI kernel libraries for modern accelerators, with standalone implementations for CUDA, Metal, ROCm, XPU, and Gaudi backends, all sharing a common contract but no shared code.

Flow is a programming language extension for C++11 that brings actor-based concurrency, enabling efficient asynchronous communication with futures and promises, and supporting deterministic simulation for reliability testing.

Zalando's engineering team describes how they implemented client-side load balancing to replace the shared edge load balancer for their high-traffic Product Read API, reducing latency and improving observability by eliminating the fan-out bottleneck through Skipper.

OpenZL is a compression library that generates specialized compressors for specific data formats, achieving high compression ratios at high speeds suitable for datacenter workloads like AI processing.

audio.cpp is a C++/ggml runtime that integrates 12 audio models including Qwen3-TTS, PocketTTS, and VeVo2, achieving TTS up to 5x faster than Python on CUDA.

TokenSpeed-Kernel is a portable, high-performance kernel system for LLM inference that enables zero vendor-specific model code and supports multiple GPU architectures, achieving up to 3.6x higher throughput on AMD MI355X.

The paper presents simdjson, the first validating JSON parser capable of processing gigabytes per second on a single core using SIMD instructions, achieving substantial speedups over existing parsers like RapidJSON.

Ray Serve LLM achieves 4.4x and 24.8x throughput improvements on prefill- and decode-heavy workloads via direct streaming, a new vLLM V2 executor backend, and HAProxy ingress, now available in Ray 2.56 in partnership with Google Cloud and vLLM.

Gemma 4 is demonstrated running in-browser via WebGPU at 255 tokens per second, using kernels generated by Fable 5, showcasing efficient on-device inference.

Sogen is a high-performance userspace emulator that supports both Windows and Linux environments.

zeroserve now supports Caddy-compatible mode, achieving 3x throughput and 70% lower latency by JIT-compiling Caddyfiles to eBPF and native machine code.

Formula 1 teams invest millions in driver-in-the-loop simulators with ultra-low latency and high fidelity to replicate real car behavior, enabling drivers to train and develop setups.

JetBrains launches Mellum, a fast LLM designed for low-latency and high-performance workflows.

mimalloc is an open-source, high-performance, scalable memory allocator that serves as a drop-in replacement for malloc and free. Designed for modern highly concurrent applications and large memory scales, it is used in major services like Bing and integrated into projects such as NoGIL CPython and Unreal Engine.

Blorp is a new low-friction, high-performance programming language that compiles to C, featuring explicit effects, typed failure, structured concurrency, and purity tracking.

New articles in the GPU Glossary cover CuTe DSL, CUTLASS, and CuTe – tools for writing high-performance GPU kernels on data center GPUs, with examples in Python.