Thousands of special-purpose, minimally-featured, embedded systems. You don't notice them because they are invisible, and they are invisible because they "just work". For high-enough volume products they have a decoder chip or section of a gate array, but most are low-volume and can barely afford the ROM for the code.
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I'm curious, what kind of platforms do you have in mind, that
a) can be targeted by C, but not by Rust
b) provide enough performance to make porting a next-gen video decoder a worthwhile exercise?
Thousands of special-purpose, minimally-featured, embedded systems. You don't notice them because they are invisible, and they are invisible because they "just work". For high-enough volume products they have a decoder chip or section of a gate array, but most are low-volume and can barely afford the ROM for the code.