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$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder

In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works well—it passes all the same…
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May 14, 2025$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder by todsacerdoti121110

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