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Note that there is a widely-used implementation of Cilk for Rust, known as Rayon, used in Firefox Quantum among other projects.

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After a web search I read that Rayon is a word play on Cilk, but neither are dictionary words.. Would someone explain the word play in the names for us non-native speakers?

Rayon[1] is artificial silk.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon

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