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Re: Richard M. Stallman says GNU/Linux, but Rust lang ecosystem is growi
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Konstantin Kharlamov |
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Re: Richard M. Stallman says GNU/Linux, but Rust lang ecosystem is growing. |
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Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:12:39 +0300 |
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On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 12:05 +0000, 馬 冰 wrote:
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> "it's just an adapter from internal API to one operating on `int`s,
> i.e.
> `Ok()` will be converted to `0`, and an error will be converted to
> another number", it may cost more memory if using 2 type systems
> simultaneously. Rust Result can use Box to allocate errors with
> unknown size on heap, whereas int is fixed-size, they may be
> incompatible due to unknown size and fixed-size.
Are you seriously motivated enough to start rewriting POSIX and other
standards and convincing people to break backward compatibility just to
save 8 bytes? Well… good luck