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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is tap, a library with extension traits to provide suffix-position pipeline behavior.

Thanks to David Mason for the suggestion!

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Call for Participation

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Updates from the Rust Project

286 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A week of mostly rather small changes with many regressions being hard to diagnose. The largest regression comes from the introduction of a new future (desugaring .await into a call to IntoFuture::into_future). This was deemed acceptable as it only seems to have a negative impact in stress test situations where async/await is used more than one would normally expect. Unfortunately this does mean regressions beat out improvements this week.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: 1c0287..ecb65b

3 Regressions, 5 Improvements, 5 Mixed; 3 of them in rollups 31 comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

Final Comment Period

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RFCs

  • No RFCs entered final comment period this week.

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Quote of the Week

v2 of the patch-series "to add support for Rust as a second language to the Linux kernel" was posted to LKML [..]

There have been several improvements to the overall Rust support since RFC and v2 described in the linked mail.

Thorsten Leemhuis on twitter

llogiq unanimously suggested and voted that this be our quote for this week.

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