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I'm a member of Futurewei's Rust team, and I'm in the Compiler Contributors group. I started these posts back in 2016 when I wasn't a member of either. It's been a long-running ser…

I've tried AST memory layout work in the Zig style, look for "shrinkage" in these two posts: - https://nnethercote.github.io/2022/10/27/how-to-speed-up-the... - https://nnethercote…

https://github.com/vusec/floatzone

I just want to say that this is a very weird but cool approach that I never would have thought of. Nice work!

No problem, I learned that I shouldn't post drafts and assume they will go unnoticed :)

The link above is to a draft version of the blog post, which is no longer available. The final version (which has a different title) is at https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/07/11/…

Thanks for the suggestion!

I didn't know about this. Thanks for the tip!

The book is primarily about Rust-specific things. Section 1 says: "Some of the techniques within are entirely Rust-specific, and some involve ideas that can be applied (often with …

It was a really weird and messy situation, and unpleasant to live through. I agree that Brendan's Prop 8 donation was bad. But he did it privately, and never (AFAIK) made anti-LGBT…

I think there is confusion here over the meaning of "Rust developer". Mozilla did lay off most of its employees that were working directly on the Rust language and its implementati…

I mentioned in the post several areas I myself haven't looked at, including cache misses. There may be room for improvements there. There is an experimental parallel rustc front-en…

> This is a supremely surprising conclusion That's why I started the paragraph with "Contrary to what you might expect". As for Stabilizer: "Stabilizer eliminates measurement bias …

Thank you for the kind words. To clarify: I am still at Mozilla! But I will be working fully on Firefox for the foreseeable future. I have edited the opening paragraph of the post …

Coming up with a binary "is this acceptable?" heuristic is also harder for performance than it is for correctness.

Thank you for the links and the kind words!

Yes. The good thing about this metric is that there is very little variation, unlike wall times, which makes it easier to spot regressions.