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> in Rust to ensure the language can do it

When creating a language you want to write as many things as possible in it to vet the design. See Go, e.g. http://golang.org/src/pkg/image/jpeg/fdct.go.

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JPEG is a good benchmark because it is a bottleneck, heavily optimised with SIMD, and still amenable to some parallelisation. That doesn't apply to text layout.