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From: Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 05:42, Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> wrote:
>
> Before I begin, I want to be clear that everything here is in the realm
> of speculative, long-term discussion.  My goal is to start a
> conversation, not to propose anything concrete right now.


Does the generated code size increase or decrease and does the
data-path get longer or shorter with switch from C to Rust with all
the "great features" of Rust? Are there any metrics for these? If a
CPU cache gets trashed repeatedly or data takes massive d-tours that
would be a significant downside, wouldn't it?


-- 
Igor M.