Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 03:40, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
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> On 31 Dec 2018, at 19:53, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 00:30, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
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> 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.


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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.