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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is man-in-the-middle-proxy, a - surprise! - man in the middle proxy.

Thanks to Emanuele Em for the self-suggestion!

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Updates from the Rust Project

376 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A really quiet week with almost all regressions being due to noise in benchmarks that show "bimodality" in codegen that can cause swings in performance from one change to the other. The only true performance change was a two-line change by @nnethercote to remove a redundant function call which led to a 0.3% improvement in performance across roughly 15 benchmarks.

Triage done by @rylev. Revision range: 31f858d9..8f9e09ac

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)
- - 0
Regressions ❌
(secondary)
2.0% [1.2%, 2.8%] 8
Improvements ✅
(primary)
-0.4% [-0.7%, -0.2%] 7
Improvements ✅
(secondary)
-1.0% [-1.8%, -0.1%] 31
All ❌✅ (primary) -0.4% [-0.7%, -0.2%] 7

7 Regressions, 8 Improvements, 2 Mixed; 7 of them in rollups 35 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report

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

Tracking Issues & PRs

New and Updated RFCs

  • No New or Updated RFCs were created this week.

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.

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Quote of the Week

(…) as much as i dislike the cargo-geiger concept, the name … kind of works

unsafe is a lot like uranium. it’s just one more metal ore you can process, refine, and machine. it doesn’t combust in atmosphere, it doesn’t corrode or make weird acids. unless you go out of your way to make it dangerous you don’t even have to worry about critical masses. you can work with it pretty normally most of the time

but if you don’t know exactly what it is, what it does, and how to work with it, it will cause mysterious illnesses that only crop up long after you’ve stopped touching it

Alexander Payne on /r/rust

Thanks to Stephan Sokolow for the 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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