Add link to Pikkr library

[dtolnay]

I am not sure whether this belongs under News & Blog Posts, feel free to close if not. The library was announced this week on the users forum. It is exciting in using AVX2 simd instructions in a central way to achieve astonishingly good performance. It demonstrates that Rust is a feasible language for such work. The readme gives a link to the research it is built on.

I used the subtitle from the repo but something like this may work better:

Fast JSON parser using AVX2 instructions to perform lookups

[nasa42]

Impressive stuff and thanks for the PR!

Unfortunately, we may not accept this PR as we usually do not link to crate announcements (with some exceptions). For rationale, please see #441 (comment) and #358 (comment).

I'd however encourage you to post this article on Rust subreddit* and Rust Herald if you are looking to get some traction.

_{* (posted here on reddit).}

[nasa42]

It is exciting in using AVX2 simd instructions in a central way to achieve astonishingly good performance. It demonstrates that Rust is a feasible language for such work.

Yes! Sorry, I closed too early. :D