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Comment #4577958
Checking correctness of the rust->llvm compiler, obviously :P
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Comment #4577859
I tried to think of an alternate justification, but couldn't come up with a non-awkward way of saying it, so just redacted that part entirely. I'll say here, though, a few reasons …
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Comment #4577803
I wondered how long it would take for somebody to call me out for that. It seemed like a sketchy claim when I wrote it (it wouldn't be too complicated to make the @-heap lock-free …
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Comment #4577789
Short answer is "all of it"[1]. 'match' statements in rust also exhaustive. I believe ADTs are used and checked exactly the same way as in ocaml (I've used SML and Haskell and they…
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Comment #4577763
My mistake. I meant to write "can SOMETIMES be entirely on the stack" -- fixed that just now. Functions indeed cannot return closures without heap-allocating them. (It might be pos…