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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is assay, a test macro that puts each test in its own process and filesystem.

Thanks to Harsh Shandilya for the suggestion!

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Call for Participation

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Updates from the Rust Project

321 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Only one outright regression this week. We had some very cool work from cjgillot to prevent queries from doing expensive clones, by just forcing them all to be Copy! Also, nnethercote's overhaul of interning yielded massive improvements across many crates. Also, a slew of benchmarks were unexpectedly improved quite a lot by some changes to way we invoke the linker when building LLVM itself.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 775e4807..a240ccd8

2 Regressions, 2 Improvements, 4 Mixed; 0 of them in rollups 47 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:

  • No RFCs were approved this week.

Final Comment Period

Every week the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

  • No RFCs entered final comment period this week.

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Quote of the Week

I still get excited about programming languages. But these days, it's not so much because of what they let me do, but rather what they don't let me do.

Amos blogging about mistakes Rust doesn't catch

Thanks to Rob Donnelly for the suggestion!

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