libass VS abomonation

TIL there's a library called 'libass'

Not Rust but libass :D

Dunno ... I'm kinda glad these guys didn't call their SSA/ASS implementation "open"

I see libass gets talked about on Reddit often enough.

libass is similar. For example, in the header:

libass

Using softsub allows you to reduce server usage as you only needs to deploy one video and multiple subtitles, but implementing it is hard: you can use this portable renderer, but just because it compiles to multiple platforms it does mean it run well on those, it might crash in low-end devices (there is even a Crunchyroll episode that loads multiple fonts at the same time, place a lot of texts moving and crash my phone).

Abomonation - "A mortifying serialization library for Rust"

Is this a feature of serde? This open feature request suggests it doesn't exist yet. Serde tries to achieve zero-copy deserialization, not zero-allocation deserialization. If you are after extreme speed, another serialization library in Rust to consider is Abomonation, which serializes and deserializes by just copying memory directly (which is highly unsafe and fragile, but still apparently works in practice).

What you describe is truly an https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/abomonation