boids

The boids crate is a reasonably fast implementation of the Boids algorithm. If you have speed improvements, please submit a pull request!

Parallel processing & speed

When compiled with the rayon feature enabled, the library will use the rayon crate to parallelize the computation. This may or may not be something you want to do, depending on your application.

| Boid count | Single-thread Time | Parallel Time | |------------|--------------------|---------------| | 100 | 7.3ms | 3.5ms | | 1000 | 414ms | 42.5ms | | 10000 | ??? | 3.4s |

Features

• rayon: Enable parallel processing
• serde: Enable serde support for all types
• puffin: Enable support for the puffin profiler
  • Note: puffin_viewer requires the packages libgtk-3-dev libatk1.0-dev libsdl-pango-dev libcairo2-dev

Demo

You can run the demo app with

sh cargo run --example showcase --features rayon