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Crate of the Week

This week's crate is venndb, an append-only memory DB whose tables can be build via a derive macro.

Thanks to Glen De Cauwsemaecker for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next 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 calls for testing were issued 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.

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not 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.

CFP - Speakers

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the submission website through a PR to TWiR.

Updates from the Rust Project

430 pull requests were merged in the last week

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A quiet week, with slightly more improvements than regressions. There were a few noise spikes, but other than that nothing too interesting.

Triage done by @Kobzol. Revision range: 86b603cd..ccfcd950b

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count
Regressions ❌
(primary)
0.5% [0.3%, 1.4%] 9
Regressions ❌
(secondary)
0.4% [0.2%, 1.1%] 20
Improvements ✅
(primary)
-0.6% [-2.5%, -0.2%] 41
Improvements ✅
(secondary)
-0.8% [-1.4%, -0.2%] 4
All ❌✅ (primary) -0.4% [-2.5%, 1.4%] 50

1 Regressions, 3 Improvements, 6 Mixed; 5 of them in rollups 62 artifact 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:

  • 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

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

New and Updated RFCs

  • No New or Updated RFCs were created this week.

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Quote of the Week

There is absolutely no way I can imagine that Option is causing that error. That'd be like turning on the "Hide Taskbar" setting causing your GPU to catch fire.

[...]

If it's not any of those, consider an exorcist because your machine might be haunted.

Daniel Keep on rust-users

Thanks to Hayden Brown for the suggestion!

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