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I tried replace Vec with SmallVec in a really hot loop in difftastic, and it's a huge speedup. It almost *halved* the runtime of one of my test files! I've done a lot of performance tuning of difftastic, so it's surprising to see such a big win. https://crates.io/crates/smallvec

Difftastic 0.23 is out! I've been tuning diffing and display and I think the results look fantastic. * Parent delimiters are modelled accurately * Display uses blank lines as an alignment hint * Textual diffing is way faster too!

Impressive ML research building a coloured 3D model from a single photo of an outfit! https://shunsukesaito.github.io/PIFu/ ML still seems to be making major strides. I'm not sure if this means technique breakthroughs, or if we're just fine-tuning established techniques.