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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is match_deref, a macro crate to implement deref patterns on stable Rust.

Thanks to meithecatte for the suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but didn't know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from the Rust Project

347 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

This was a fairly negative week for compiler performance, with regressions overall up to 14% on some workloads (primarily incr-unchanged scenarios), largely caused by #101620. We are still chasing down either a revert or a fix for that regression, though a partial mitigation in #101862 has been applied. Hopefully the full fix or revert will be part of the next triage report.

We also saw a number of other regressions land, though most were much smaller in magnitude.

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 17cbdfd0..8fd6d03

See the full report for more details.

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

  • No RFCs issued a call for testing this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

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.

Tracking Issues & PRs

  • No Tracking Issues or PRs entered Final Comment Period this week.

New and Updated RFCs

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Quote of the Week

At the #LinuxPlumbers Rust MC: "I'm Matthew Wilcox, I'm one of the authors of the NVMe spec, I'm the one who suggested you make an NVMe driver to demonstrate the value of Rust. You have succeeded beyond my wildest expectations. These performance numbers are phenomenal."

Josh Triplett paraphrasing Matthew Wilcox as spoken at the Linux Plumbers Conference Q&A session

Thanks to Josh Triplett for the self-suggestion!

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