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LLM Rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python

7 points by m-novikov ago | 2 comments

m-novikov [-]

Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering speed is up by 9.6x. Now zero dependencies and a 3mb single exec

https://claude.ai/code/artifact/287825bc-7aad-4541-a7e7-fa4b...

ahefner |root |parent [-]

3 MB is still pretty big... try a rewrite in C.