Add "Applying 5 million pixel updates per second with Rust & wgpu" (#1342)

Co-authored-by: Forest Anderson <forestkzanderson@gmail.com>

Author: codetheweb

content/news/044/index.md

@@ -407,6 +407,23 @@ _Discussions: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OHaEVHahIg), [Mastodon]
 [Using the Depth Prepass in Bevy 0.10]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OHaEVHahIg
 [@chrisbiscardi]: https://hachyderm.io/@chrisbiscardi
 
+### [Applying 5 million pixel updates per second with Rust & wgpu](https://maxisom.me/posts/applying-5-million-pixel-updates-per-second)
+
+![a render near the final state of /r/place](./r_place_render.jpg)
+
+[@codetheweb] published an [article][code_the_web_article] that explores the
+basics of `wgpu` by optimizing a program that replays [/r/place]. By the end,
+CPU usage is around 18-25% while applying an average of 5m pixel updates per
+second at 10,000x playback speed.
+
+_Discussions:
+[/r/rust](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/11o9he6/rendering_5_million_pixel_updates_per_second_with/),
+[/r/rust_gamedev](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev/comments/11odm3k/rendering_5_million_pixel_updates_per_second_with/)_
+
+[@codetheweb]: https://github.com/codetheweb
+[code_the_web_article]: https://maxisom.me/posts/applying-5-million-pixel-updates-per-second
+[/r/place]: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/
+
 ## Tooling Updates
 
 ### Tiger