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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is pci-driver, a crate to develop user-space PCI(e) linux drivers.

Thanks to Alberto Faria for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

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Updates from the Rust Project

388 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Overall, a fairly quiet week where the change to primary benchmarks ended up breaking exactly even. Secondary benchmarks saw improvements but not in large enough numbers for it to be particularly noteworthy.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: 02cd79a..1e926f0

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)
0.8% [0.2%, 1.4%] 19
Regressions ❌
(secondary)
1.0% [0.3%, 1.8%] 9
Improvements ✅
(primary)
-0.6% [-1.8%, -0.3%] 29
Improvements ✅
(secondary)
-1.0% [-6.4%, -0.2%] 39
All ❌✅ (primary) -0.0% [-1.8%, 1.4%] 48

3 Regressions, 1 Improvements, 6 Mixed; 4 of them in rollups 41 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

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

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RFCs

  • No RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

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New and Updated RFCs

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Quote of the Week

There's a lot of weird debate about whether Rust in the kernel is useful or not... in my experience, it's way more useful than I could've ever imagined!

I went from 1st render to a stable desktop that can run run games, browsers, etc. in about two days of work on my driver (!!!)

All the concurrency bugs just vanish with Rust! Memory gets freed when it needs to be freed! Once you learn to make Rust work with you, I feel like it guides you into writing correct code, even beyond the language's safety promises. It's seriously magic! ✨

There is absolutely no way I wouldn't have run into race conditions, UAFs, memory leaks, and all kinds of badness if I'd been writing this in C.

In Rust? Just some logic bugs and some core memory management issues. Once those were fixed, the rest of the driver just worked!!

Asahi Lina on twitter

llogiq is mightily pleased with his suggestion.

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

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