Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 03:47:03 +0000 From: Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> To: Garance A Drosehn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Hackers freeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components Message-ID: <CADWvR2j0Zdp4i3nk-D=GpDXwS0Wnob2ydakSc-Frs0zu5Y2nBA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3E0C78EF-FBCC-4E7B-BD39-8A27322CDA8C@rpi.edu> References: <ca76e5f7-6e59-bd67-144a-90ad66f0252e@metricspace.net> <CAG6CVpV0kxupmkhHiYBT05Yfst6uNtbUyYUzG95Zwcbk9F3K0Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAOtMX2gO5yMxLpZYxmfG3DFhRnZna-mQBOGXe=OJOzP4QfpBmg@mail.gmail.com> <5B476178-4D09-486F-AC58-47CB04965335@FreeBSD.org> <2C39D05E-E855-4FCE-82CF-83EA4AE9F84A@FreeBSD.org> <CADWvR2gPF_xM4mDi-uuWq3C6qKh72Kn17=g6bOLPMYYHsayO8Q@mail.gmail.com> <3E0C78EF-FBCC-4E7B-BD39-8A27322CDA8C@rpi.edu>
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On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 03:40, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > On 31 Dec 2018, at 19:53, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 00:30, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > There's one program written in rust which I use a lot, which is > called 'ripgrep' (or 'rg' for short). It's one of the few programs > which I install via pre-compiled pkgs, because I don't want to wait > for all the time it takes to compile a release-build. But I'm very > happy with how fast the program runs. > > And what metric is that against? I'm very happy with the speed jQuery > is executed in my browser, but that's no reasonable metric to argue > that JavaScript is a suitable language for the kernel... > > I mentioned that program so each person could test it for themselves, > using whatever metric that they are comfortable with. <snip> I think you missed the point I was trying to make: you're comparing apples and oranges---sure, they are (for most part) round, but they're different! What you need is the implementation of the same algorithm in both C and Rust and then we can talk... Happy New Year! -- Igor M.
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