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Is this reduction in line count typical? I'm surprised. Or is this discounting parts of the code that have been moved out into separate crates?
by zellyn 9y ago
Is this reduction in line count typical? I'm surprised. Or is this discounting parts of the code that have been moved out into separate crates?
- Rusky 9y agoThere's some good discussion of how it happened here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7cwpbq/fearless_concurrency_in_firefox_quantum/dpt9gq0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7cwpbq/fearless_concu... One of the biggest contributors is "custom derive," which cuts out a lot of boilerplate. Another is that Gecko C++ is also pretty old and so doesn't rely on a lot of what is now standard. It's also just a ground-up rewrite, which has the advantage of hindsight. It's not a trick of moving code around.
- zellyn 9y agoOh, thanks. Perfect link. It makes sense that rewrites are smaller, but the reduction factor was still surprising.