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Date:      Tue, 1 Jan 2019 16:00:26 +0000
From:      Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>
To:        Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
Cc:        Hackers freeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components
Message-ID:  <CADWvR2izXwGRwkWn52x6s3U73ki5Qdg98Y-00use=G9febhrGA@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <20190101045638.D280E1F56@spqr.komquats.com> <a2d04773-c7cc-457d-4db6-913cb84e885b@metricspace.net>

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On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 15:54, Eric McCorkle wrote:

<snip>

&gt; I don't think that's a fair comparison at all.  Rust is a systems
&gt; language built around zero-cost abstractions that is usable for
&gt; developing real embedded code

<snip>

Brian's simple experiment [1] demonstrates that "zero-cost" is more of
an aspiration (and a very long term one, perhaps) than a hard fact ;-)

1. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2019-January/053837.html
</snip></snip>

--
Igor M.



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