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Update (Dec 10, 2021): I have added some extra information worth reading at the bottom of this post. The Rust compiler uses hash tables heavily, and the choice of hash function used for these hash tables makes a big difference to the compiler’s speed. By default, Rust hash tables use Siphash 1-3, a hash function tha...

If you are writing a simple function, and there's really a "go/no go" sense to the contract, you should seriously conser returning a Result<my thing, Box<dyn Error>>: it has a lot of advantages: no loss of reportabilty (such as it is) you can make gross changes to your implementation without changing the interface n...

WebAssembly (or Wasm) is a W3C specification for a portable binary format for distributing and running code that has been implemented in the four major browser engines since 2017. In familiar terms, Wasm is used as a compilation target for various programming languages , generating a compact binary that can run at n...