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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is enum_dispatch, a proc-macro-attribute to replace dynamic dispatch with enum dispatch to gain performance.

Thanks to David Mason for the suggestion!

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Updates from the Rust Project

377 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A good week: Several performance improvements, many around macro expansion. Only one regression of note, and that PR author opened an issue to follow up on it.

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 468492c2..c51871c4

Summary:

Regressions 😿
(primary)		 Regressions 😿
(secondary)		 Improvements 🎉
(primary)		 Improvements 🎉
(secondary)		 All 😿 🎉
(primary)
count 11 37 117 65 128
mean 0.7% 0.7% -1.2% -1.6% -1.1%
max 1.5% 1.9% -6.5% -5.2% -6.5%

2 Regressions, 4 Improvements, 1 Mixed; 1 of them in rollups 59 artifact comparisons made in total

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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.

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RFCs

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Quote of the Week

At Cloudflare we have big Rust projects/teams and onboard new developers regularly.

There is a learning curve. Rust is rigid and unforgiving, and noobs need assistance when the compiler says “no” (although error messages and Clippy do a good job for common mistakes).

However, the big upside is that noobs can contribute safely to Rust projects. Rust limits severity of the damage an inexperienced programmer can cause. Once they manage to get the code to compile, it already has lots of correctness guarantees. “Bad” Rust code may just clone more than strictly necessary, or write 10 lines of code for something that has a helper method in the stdlib, but it won’t corrupt memory or blindly run the happy path without checking for errors. Rust prefers to be locally explicit, so it’s also easy to review.

– Kornel.Lesiński on lobste.rs

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