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Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and its applications today

• smt88 9y ago
  Are the Rust benchmarks better because of Rust or because the Rust packages are just better written?
  • kodablah 9y ago
    Surely the latter. Most of Rust's optimization comes from LLVM, so clang and others get the same benefit.
    • rbanffy 9y ago
      It could also be that Rust exposes more information that can be used to optimize the code it generates to LLVM. Its explicitness makes for a very complete depiction of dependencies and side effects.
      • smt88 9y ago
        That's interesting and makes sense. I had always thought of LLVM as being lossy when compiling anything more explicit than C++, but that's obviously nonsense since there are front-ends for things like Haskell. Cool!
  • steveklabnik 9y ago
    For ripgrep, its author weighed in on programming Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7z64nr/oxidizing_fedora_try_rust_and_its_applications/dulmy2d/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7z64nr/oxidizi...