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Date:      Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:23:30 -0500
From:      "Garance A Drosehn" <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Brian Neal" <brian@aceshardware.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components
Message-ID:  <72922F2C-9D27-47AA-BB1C-2DA8589CF008@rpi.edu>
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On 31 Dec 2018, at 23:04, Brian Neal wrote:

> This is a good read on some of the pitfalls of Rust:
>
> https://hackernoon.com/why-im-dropping-rust-fd1c32986c88
>
> In terms of performance, take a look at Rust on godbolt...a quick test 
> I just ran with a trivial program that sums up a sequence of odd 
> numbers is 29 instructions in C on clang 7.0 and a whopping 137 (!!!) 
> on rustc 1.31.0!
>
> Crazy...

Did you compile your program as a "release build", or just as a
standard (quick) build?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn                =     drosih@rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA



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