Re: The Case for Rust (in any system)

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ske-89@pkmab.se writes:
> On 6 Sep 2024 8:25, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> > The C-stewardship situation has become increasingly intolerable to
> > me, and I have practically already made up my mind, that Varnish
> > Cache will migrate to a defined subset of C++, roughly corresponding
> > to where I think C should have been by now.
>
> What might that subset be?

Initially it will be "better C compiler", but then we will gradually
allow more and more of C++ to be used.

> And how come Varnish Cache started out using C at all?

We needed /really/ tight control with calls to malloc/free to get
SMP performance:  None of the relevant malloc's were SMP-aware in
2006.

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