m10-performance

Identify performance bottlenecks in Rust projects and recommend optimizations.

1|Updated Apr 4, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/Jylhis/claude-marketplace --skill m10-performance-jylhis
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
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Skill: m10-performance
Source: https://github.com/Jylhis/claude-marketplace/tree/main/plugins/rust-dev/skills/m10-performance
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/Jylhis/claude-marketplace --skill m10-performance-jylhis

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

This skill guides Rust developers to identify and address performance issues such as excessive allocations, poor cache locality, and lack of parallelism, ensuring optimizations are justified and measured.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Design Decision Framework: Structured tables map goals (e.g., reduce allocations) to design choices and concrete implementations like with_capacity or rayon.
  • Thinking Prompts: Checklist questions to ensure profiling, benchmarking, and trade‑off analysis before changes.
  • Traceability: Links performance concerns to domain constraints (latency, throughput) and to concrete Rust modules (ownership, resource, concurrency).
  • Tool Quick Reference: Summarizes cargo bench, criterion, perf, heaptrack, valgrind and cachegrind utilities. Use case: When a Rust service exhibits high latency, invoke this skill to evaluate profiling data and receive actionable refactoring suggestions.

Quick Start

Ask the skill to evaluate your Rust project and provide performance optimization recommendations.

Frequently Asked Questions about m10-performance

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I identify performance bottlenecks in Rust code?

You can identify Rust performance bottlenecks by profiling with tools like perf, criterion, and heaptrack to measure latency, memory allocations, and cache locality, ensuring optimizations are justified by measurable data.

What's the best way to reduce excessive memory allocations in Rust?

The best way to reduce excessive allocations in Rust involves using targeted optimizations like pre-allocating collections with with_capacity, improving ownership patterns, and verifying memory usage reductions with heaptrack or valgrind.

How do I improve cache locality and parallelism in a Rust project?

Improve cache locality and parallelism in Rust by analyzing cache efficiency with cachegrind and integrating data parallelism libraries like rayon, mapping throughput goals to concrete concurrency design decisions.

When do I need to benchmark Rust code for performance optimization?

You need to benchmark Rust code for performance optimization when a service exhibits high latency or fails to meet performance service level agreements, ensuring that any refactoring yields measurable speed gains and reduced memory usage.

Can I use cargo bench and criterion to measure Rust optimization trade-offs?

Yes, you can use cargo bench and criterion to measure Rust optimization trade-offs by running structured benchmarks before and after changes, validating that cache efficiency and allocation reductions align with domain constraints.