Mehdi Akiki

Posts tagged "performance engineering"

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    Article · Through the layers

    Aho–Corasick DFA or NFA: Which One Should I Use in Rust?

    Rust's Aho–Corasick crate can build three different automata. I compare their construction cost, memory layout, search behavior, and the evidence needed before forcing one.
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    Article · Through the layers

    Zero-Copy Does Not Mean Zero Memory Access: Aho-Corasick Streaming in Rust

    Zero-copy scanning still reads every inspected byte. It removes a second materialization in memory. I use streaming Aho-Corasick to explain automaton state, chunk boundaries, DFA dependency chains, prefilters, and honest performance measurement.