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Written by Dustin Mitchell on 2024-11-05 at 13:47

People complain about fighting the #rust borrow checker, but somehow C++ errors (there's more, this is as small as the terminal font goes) because "mumble mumble const mumble non-const lvalue mumble" are somehow OK??

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Written by Dustin Mitchell on 2024-10-31 at 23:43

Kids with hot dog costumes got double candy! #TaskMaster

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Written by Dustin Mitchell on 2024-10-13 at 17:28

I juts ran across this sentence:

Normal Rust, which opportunistically uses pretzels and avoids gratuitous allocations but otherwise doesn’t try to optimize anything specifically

https://matklad.github.io/2024/10/06/ousterhouts-dichotomy.html

I've never heard of #pretzels as an optimization technique in #Rust or otherwise. Gemini knew for sure that it is a process of using specialized memory pools for small allocations, but when pressed for a link gave up. Reddit suggests it's actually a reference to &.

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