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People still care about Rust? After the quadratic hashes and rumored memory issues, I'd have thought people would've dropped interest in it by now.
edit: hash table vuln article (2011): http://www.securityweek.com/hash-table-collision-attacks-cou...
What sorts of applications/domains need or benefit from having 128 bit integers?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Finance and scientific computing.
Is this for implementing faster high precision floating point? It didn't mention 128 bit float.
I know fortran and Cobol code that banks use and is used for science (tm) often defines numbers this large for certain operations.
One such i can think of is a map reduce of large datasets. Let's say you want to find as a result a huge sum. 2^128 is a bit bigger then 2^64 and that difference may be big enough to provide the computation needed for getting to Mars rather then getting to the moon on 2^8 machines.
What sorts of applications/domains need or benefit from having 128 bit integers?
What sorts of applications/domains need or benefit from having 128 bit integers?
This title implies some things that aren't quite right. Let's take a step back. The current release of stable Rust is 1.13, beta is 1.14, nightly is 1.15. New features land on master, hence 1.15. So this means that, if it does land, it will become available on nightly soon. But it's still behind a feature flag. So it won't actually come out in Rust 1.15. I am not on the relevant subteam here, so I am not 100% sure of…
This title implies some things that aren't quite right. Let's take a step back. The current release of stable Rust is 1.13, beta is 1.14, nightly is 1.15. New features land on master, hence 1.15. So this means that, if it does land, it will become available on nightly soon. But it's still behind a feature flag. So it won't actually come out in Rust 1.15. I am not on the relevant subteam here, so I am not 100% sure of…
Yea I didn't know how to word it without it becoming more of a sentence and less of a title.
People still care about Rust? After the quadratic hashes and rumored memory issues, I'd have thought people would've dropped interest in it by now.
"rumored memory issues" just sounds like FUD.
People still care about Rust? After the quadratic hashes and rumored memory issues, I'd have thought people would've dropped interest in it by now.
> After the quadratic hashes Reference: http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/153545455987/ru... (bugs happen, fix is in the queue, life goes on) > rumored memory issues Rumors are just rumors. If you (or anyone else) has more than FUD here, please email https://www.rust-lang.org/security.html .
> One proposal is that hash tables ought to retain their insertion order...
This seems to be something that a lot of hash table implementations are converging on:
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-eff...
Do you happen to have a link to the discussion for the Rust proposal?