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  1. …you have recommendations I'm a Rust fanboy, so I'd recommend installing Rust via rustup ;-) [pr]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79219
    comment by shepmaster · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  2. …intermediate README with instructions [readme] [fzy]: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy [tracking]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908 [readme]: https://github.com/shepmaster/rust/blob/silicon/silicon/READ...
    comment by shepmaster · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  3. …it does work. Time is not the only issue here, as elaborated downthread. For the gory details, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908
    comment by steveklabnik · 2020-11-21 · in Is Apple Silicon Ready?
  4. …software. You mentioned Rust, which is currently blocked on getting hardware hooked up to CI ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908 ) Also, such an impressive release of hardware shows third party devs that Apple is serious about…
    comment by nindalf · 2020-11-20 · in Is Apple Silicon Ready?
  5. For anyone who wants to learn more: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79135
    comment by matt_kantor · 2020-11-19 · in Rust 1.48
  6. ▲ 1
    Rust – status update on const generics
    story by agluszak · 2020-11-18 · 0 comments
  7. …enabled it will allow to be as or faster than cranelift while keeping sane runtime performance. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/77117
    comment by The_rationalist · 2020-11-18 · in 30% Faster Rust Build Times using Cranelift instead of the LLVM
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    30% Faster Rust Build Times using Cranelift instead of the LLVM
    story by ibraheemdev · 2020-11-17 · 74 comments
  9. …1.0 (including a nice "book")[1] being released. EDIT: Oh, and the Rust performance book[2]. [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79135 [1]: https://cxx.rs [2]: https://nnethercote.github.io/perf-book/
    comment by hobofan · 2020-11-17 · in Servo’s new home
  10. Rust's Apple Silicon support is tracked here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908
    comment by steveklabnik · 2020-11-17 · in Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
  11. …are no CI providers so we can’t automatically run tests for it. I’ve been running them by hand. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908
    comment by shepmaster · 2020-11-12 · in Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
  12. …gets enabled by default that could be another 25-50% off when compared to the system linker (e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/39915#issuecomment-... ). And so far Cranelift ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/77975 )…
    comment by kibwen · 2020-11-11 · in Exploring PGO for the Rust Compiler
  13. …always unsupported with VMs (which means you don't want to run the measurement inside CI). [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50655
    comment by ibraheemdev · 2020-11-11 · in Exploring PGO for the Rust Compiler
  14. …out, since there's a large body of Fortran code that relies on good aliasing optimizations. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54878
    comment by johncolanduoni · 2020-11-11 · in Will R Work on Apple Silicon?
  15. …older instruction sets (specifically that lack SSE and SSE2, if I recall) are no longer supported: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/14441 As a consequence of this issue, I had to manually downgrade librsvg on a older machine in…
    comment by CarelessExpert · 2020-11-05 · in Linux Distributions You Can Rely on for Your Ancient 32-Bit Computer
  16. …unable to actually make those aliasing optimizations because LLVM doesn't compile them correctly? https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54878
    comment by creata · 2020-11-01 · in C/C++ vs. Rust Performance
  17. …starting with Vec [2]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/jgxgpu/box_will_have_... [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/77187 [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/jgxgpu/box_will_have_...
    comment by aw1621107 · 2020-11-01 · in C/C++ vs. Rust Performance
  18. ▲ 2
    Add hack to keep `actix-web` and `actori-web` compiling
    story by MStrehovsky · 2020-10-30 · 0 comments
  19. …Also it seems that Ryu prints some numbers in weird ways even though "nicer" representations exist: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/52811#issuecomment-...
    comment by est31 · 2020-10-30 · in Rendering floating numbers: advances in problems you didn’t know you had (2011)
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    Cranelift has just been successfully merged as an optional back end for rustc
    story by xucheng · 2020-10-27 · 0 comments
  21. ▲ 3
    Bastion of the Turbofish
    story by animal_spirits · 2020-10-26 · 0 comments
  22. …provider wasn't great at handling multi-GB caches, so we went with the approach outlined above. [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1.47.0/src/ci/init_re... [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/0347ff58230af512c95...
    comment by aidanhs · 2020-10-26 · in A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
  23. …default uses the `FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE` share permission[1]. [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/std/sr... [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/os/windows/fs/trait.OpenOption...
    comment by Measter · 2020-10-18 · in C++ still isn't cutting it
  24. …Rust 0.8 (2013-09-26) "Explicit enum discriminants may be given as uints as in enum E { V = 0u }" https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md#ve... They're referenced as a pre-existing feature in this Jan 2015 RFC [0], so…
    comment by nicoburns · 2020-10-11 · in Rust After the Honeymoon
  25. …it, and if you can't or don't want to use nightly you can go and assist its shepherding to stable ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/72016 ) > while format is great, it's also very heavyweight. Not having (AFAIK) variadic arguments…
    comment by masklinn · 2020-10-11 · in Rust After the Honeymoon
  26. …which was not allowed to unwind at the time the linked comment was made. But in the last few hours, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76448 was linked to, which shows how that has since changed.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2020-10-09 · in Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet
  27. …be. Generics over the array size is one of them, although unfortunately there are others such as https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53827
    comment by simias · 2020-10-08 · in Rust 1.47
  28. …want to follow this issue, which is about stabilizing a minimally-useful subset of const generics: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/74878 . It seems to be coming along well: "Regarding the remaining steps: there are only a handful…
    comment by kibwen · 2020-10-08 · in Rust 1.47
  29. It's also on track to be available in std: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/72414 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/74465
    comment by archseer · 2020-10-03 · in Rust Starter Kit 2020
  30. …sub-pattern matchings, though it's not stable yet there's a tracking issue for at-and-sub-patterns: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/65490 and it works on nightly: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&editi...…
    comment by masklinn · 2020-10-02 · in A Fistful of States: More State Machine Patterns in Rust
  31. D does: https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html#delimited_strings Rust does too, to some degree: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/9674
    comment by nialv7 · 2020-10-02 · in Escaping strings in Bash using !:q
  32. …to worry about over at [1]. [0] https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit... [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54685
    comment by jiripospisil · 2020-09-30 · in It Is Never a Compiler Bug Until It Is
  33. …https://brokenco.de/2020/01/08/faster-rust-linking.html * 2x faster than gold according to this: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/71515
    comment by Ar-Curunir · 2020-09-28 · in Zig's New Relationship with LLVM
  34. …updated since then, but it seems Cloudflare is still serving an outdated version sometimes. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76858#pullrequestrevi... [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/76858/commits/344d835...
    comment by rcvalle · 2020-09-24 · in Rust programming language exploit mitigations
  35. Here is one example, https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/63818 Alternative ideas, here are four, combining the productivity of automatic memory management with ownership, https://swift.org/blog/swift-5-exclusivity/…
    comment by pjmlp · 2020-09-24 · in Biscuit: A monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go
  36. The original impetus seems to have been for the now defunct green threading concurrency approach: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/13158/files One of the post hoc rationales that seems to have cropped up is as you mentioned. But that…
    comment by wahern · 2020-09-24 · in How expensive is integer-overflow trapping in C++?
  37. …a thing happened with specialization, which has been in the works for much longer (current status: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68970 ), and the lesson has been to not incite expectation until you are extremely certain the…
    comment by kibwen · 2020-09-23 · in Haskell's Children
  38. …associated types). But that is blocked on other work and might never actually be implemented. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44265
    comment by the_duke · 2020-09-23 · in Haskell's Children
  39. …for a while already (I actually forgot that the "basic" implementation is not yet stable!) [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/35121
    comment by Sharlin · 2020-09-23 · in Bottom Type in F#
  40. …accidentally end up copying an iterator you think you're mutating. A good example is provided here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48649#issuecomment-...
    comment by cmyr · 2020-09-21 · in My least favorite Rust type
  41. …last! Feature `min_specialization` seems to not be a non-crashing subset of specialization [1] [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68970
    comment by akiselev · 2020-09-21 · in My least favorite Rust type
  42. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/2e0edc0f28c5647141bed...
    comment by kccqzy · 2020-09-21 · in My least favorite Rust type
  43. …calls being rejected despite being sound [2]. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2407 [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6268
    comment by dlubarov · 2020-09-20 · in Why Not Rust?
  44. ▲ 1
    Tell HN: Rust lang compiler privacy issues and leaks
    story by flintspinner · 2020-09-18 · 0 comments
  45. …though, so my intuition might have missed something important for the design of larger compilers: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/7bdb5dee7bac15458b10b... ]
    comment by remram · 2020-09-17 · in My Favorite Rust Function Signature
  46. ▲ 2
    Rust lang: sensitive info disclosure in the compiler
    story by rshacklefrd1234 · 2020-09-16 · 0 comments
  47. …this: https://github.com/glandium/boxext Some more context. There used to be a `box` keyword too. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50047
    comment by staticassertion · 2020-09-16 · in Pb-jelly – A Protobuf code generation framework for Rust, developed at Dropbox
  48. Yes, compilation got a lot slower in 1.46 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/75992 and there has been some breakage with `type_length_limit` errors.
    comment by cp-r · 2020-09-08 · in How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
  49. ▲ 2
    LLVM loop optimization can make safe programs crash
    story by wglb · 2020-09-08 · 0 comments
  50. std::fs::create_dir: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/7fc048f0712ba515ca11f... -> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/7fc048f0712ba515ca11f... -> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/7fc048f0712ba515ca11f... ->…
    comment by Arnavion · 2020-08-29 · in Don't trust default timeouts