alt Hacker NewsThis is amazing.. ive been working with custom CUDA kernels and https://crates.io/crates/cudarc for a long time, and this honestly looks like it could be a near drop-in replacement.
im especially curious how build times would compare? Most Rust CUDA crates obv rely on calling CMake or nvcc, which can make compilation painfully slow. coincidentally, just last week i was profiling build times and found that tools like sccache can dramatically reduce rebuild times by caching artifacts - but you still end up paying for expensive custom nvcc invocations (e.g. candle by hugging face calls custom nvcc command in their kernel compilation): https://arpadvoros.com/posts/2026/05/05/speeding-up-rust-whi...
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Do other people agree cuda-oxide looks like a near dorp in replacement for cudarc?
That would be amazing, but probably not imo complementarily so.
I am curious what distinguished cuda-oxide. Beyond it being totally under nv control.
Cudarc slaps!
> Most Rust CUDA crates obv rely on calling CMake or nvcc, which can make compilation painfully slow.
I anecdotally haven't hit this; see the `cuda_setup` crate I made to handle the build scripts; it is a simple `build.rs` which only recompiles if the file changes, and it's a tiny compile time (compared to the rust CPU-side code)