xmrig's impl is only a couple percent faster here and there, on specific CPU models

there are no massive gains to be had anywhere

implementing RandomX in rust is kind of pointless, unless you're just looking for an exercise to learn rust.

<k​ayabanerve:monero.social> Sorry, why is another implementation of a hash function pointless?

<k​ayabanerve:monero.social> Is the comment it's likely going to have suboptimal performance due to the above miner conversation, and isn't an inefficient use of time?

<k​ayabanerve:monero.social> Like, 'it's pointless to redo RandomX just to do a miner'?

the source language is largely irrelevant since RandomX is its own virtual machine

my comment is it's pointless to do it *in rust*

but yes, it would mainly be a waste of time to do it *at all*

the only rewrite worth doing is in C, which will gain a couple percent here and there and reduce code size a bit here and there.

but the overall gain is tiny. I got most of the way through and realized that it was way past diminishing returns already.

the only other reason to finish the C rewrite is to eliminate the dependency bloat of the C++ runtime library

a consideration that doesn't even matter here since the main projects are all in C++ and paying that cost already

<j​babb:cypherstack.com> What IDE do you (alls o yous) recommend for Monero dev work, please? I'm using Android Studio for other work projects but it isn't well-sutied for C++. I use VS Code from time to time and emacs here and there, but find myself editing in plain text more than is probably useful because AS is a RAM hog and maybe I just haven't invested enough time into VS Code or VS in general to be comforable w it

<j​babb:cypherstack.com> please share any IDE recommendations, gurus 🙏

vim + shell ...

<r​brunner7:monero.social> I use VS Code and I am quite happy with it. Tons of extensions around if the base editor lacks something you would like to have. I find it a bit ironic that out of all possible organisations, communities and similar it was Microsoft to write *the* open source IDE for Linux ...