How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
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How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
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Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#2Thank you for your excellent work over the years! Your efforts have gone a long way to making Rust enjoyable to write =)
If there are any smart rust-using company, they should definitely hire nnethercote to continue their excellent work!
Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#3Nicholas Nethercote didn't just speed up Rust. He went in & did the dirty work of dredging through Firefox profiling
> It’s rare that a single micro-optimization is a big deal, but dozens and dozens of them are. Persistence is key
Persistence is work. Mozilla is cutting the people who put in the work of staving off bitrot
Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#4Mozilla is a terrible company, shame a lot of the people working on rust won't be able to do that anymore. Don't know who else is going to pick up the slack to continue progressing the language.
Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#5The title made it sound like the Rust compiler is at its performance limit and they doing the last possible optimization.
Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#6Nicholas Nethercote didn't just speed up Rust. He went in & did the dirty work of dredging through Firefox profiling > It’s rare that a single micro-optimization is a big deal, but dozens and dozens of them are. Persistence is key Persistence is work. Mozilla is cutting the people who put in the work of staving off bitrot
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 to make this clearer.
Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#7Thanks for all you've done over the years here. I'm sad you won't be able to do more of it.
Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#8Nicholas Nethercote didn't just speed up Rust. He went in & did the dirty work of dredging through Firefox profiling > It’s rare that a single micro-optimization is a big deal, but dozens and dozens of them are. Persistence is key Persistence is work. Mozilla is cutting the people who put in the work of staving off bitrot
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 to make this clearer.
Glad to hear, as someone who continues to use Firefox it's reassuring to know we'll continue to benefit from your skills
Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#9Nnerthercote own the best blog on performance profiling that I've ever seen, congrats to your huge skill set, Firefox, chromium, and programming languages need more people like you.
Re: How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
#10It's sad to see your rustc contributions stop, nnethercote. I guess rustc now has to run an experiment on how quickly performance improves without you :(.
IMO compiler speed still remains the main ergonomics hurdle in developing Rust software.