This post describes some performance work I have been doing recently on rustc. I spent several weeks on a particular problem with only a small amount of success. I hope a write-up will be interesting and educational, and may even lead to suggestions that ... (more…)

Rust's type-erasing dyn Trait offers a way to treat different implementors of a trait in a homogenous fashion while remaining strictly and statically (i.e. compile-time) typed. For example: if you want a Vec of values which implement your trait, but they... (more…)

Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look! (more…)

A personal blog focused on AI, scientific computing and other passing fads. (more…)

A couple weekends ago, I found myself with the desire to fetch oil and gas production data for a specific county in New Mexico from the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division (OCD). (more…)