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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is noline, a small no-std compatible readline-like line editor.

A lack of suggestions notwithstanding, llogiq is pretty pleased with his choice.

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Updates from the Rust Project

302 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Largely a quiet week. The perf improvement highlight is the use of real world crates such as syn, cargo, and serde in the collecting of profile guided optimization (PGO) profiles. Previously only libcore was used. This led to some decent improvement in compilation of real world crates (upwards of 5.5%).

On the regression side, the regressions were all largely small but contained inside of rollups making them hard to diagnose and correct. The perf team continues to work on process improvements that make changes to the compiler land through CI quickly while minimizing perf regressions that can sneak through.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: 10dccdc..3ba1eb

2 Regressions, 3 Improvements, 3 Mixed; 3 of them in rollups 42 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:

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RFCs

  • No RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

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Quote of the Week

protip: the rust extern keyword has a --help flag

``text error[E0703]: invalid ABI: found--help` --> ext.rs:1:8 | 1 | extern "--help" {} fn main() {} | ^^^^^^^^ invalid ABI | = help: valid ABIs: Rust, C, C-unwind, cdecl, stdcall, stdcall-unwind, fastcall, vectorcall, thiscall, thiscall-unwind, aapcs, win64, sysv64, ptx-kernel, msp430-interrupt, x86-interrupt, amdgpu-kernel, efiapi, avr-interrupt, avr-non-blocking-interrupt, C-cmse-nonsecure-call, wasm, system, system-unwind, rust-intrinsic, rust-call, platform-intrinsic, unadjusted

error: aborting due to previous error

For more information about this error, try rustc --explain E0703. ```

– Aria the Cat (with some help from rustc) on twitter

Thanks to Jacob Pratt for the suggestion!

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This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, cdmistman, ericseppanen, extrawurst, andrewpollack, U007D, kolharsam, joelmarcey, mariannegoldin.

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