Making the rav1d Video Decoder 1% Faster

*on macOS with an M3 chip *slightly more than 1%, on a specific benchmark, without any new unsafe code A while ago, memorysafety.org announced a contest for improving performance of rav1d , a Rust port of the dav1d AV1 decoder. As this literally has my name written on it, I thought it would be fun to give it a try (even though I probably can&rsquo;t participate in the contest). This is a write-up…