What Are Bitfields? The C programming language is a product of a time where it was important to use as few resoures as possible. Memory was measured in kilobytes rather than gigabytes as we do today. Bitfields offer a handy way to reduce memory usage. How... (more…)

This post describes the design and implementation of a runtime benchmark suite for measuring the performance of Rust programs, which was recently added into the Rust compiler suite. I have recently blogged about how the whole benchmark suite works, so fee... (more…)

Brings i128 and u128 support to nightly rust, behind a feature flag. The goal of this PR is to do the bulk of the work for 128 bit integer support. Smaller but just as tricky features needed for st...

This post is part of my series comparing C++ to Rust, which I introduced with a discussion of C++ and Rust syntax. In this post, I discuss move semantics. This post is framed around the way moves are implemented in C++, and the fundamental problem with th... (more…)

A native Rust UI library with fine-grained reactivity - GitHub - lapce/floem: A native Rust UI library with fine-grained reactivity... (more…)