Adrian Alic

Most-linked posts?

1. Beating the fastest lexer generator in Rust
   5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-07-11
2. Comparing Yourself to Others Is Fine
   3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-07-24
3. Custom-Width Integer Types
   3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-02

What Hacker News says?

1. dist1ll · 2023-07-21

   What you're describing is very common amongst developers. So common in fact, that I've written a post about this https://alic.dev/blog/comparisons In short: recognizing your insecurities is the first step. The next step is figuring out what's important to you, shedding impossible to achieve and irrational ambitions, prioritizing your goals in life, and articulating concrete steps to further them.

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   on “I have written a JVM in Rust”
2. dist1ll · 2023-09-18

   Submitted When Zig Outshines Rust – Memory Efficient Enum Arrays as a story · 21 points

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3. dist1ll · 2023-07-02

   > small AST nodes will be pointlessly padded to account for the size of the largest AST node. This is a great point, and something I mentioned in my blog post on custom-bitwidth integer types: https://alic.dev/blog/custom-bitwidth Discriminated unions can work, but you have to be clever with your memory footprint.

   Comment linking /blog/custom-bitwidth

   on “Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures)”
4. fanf2 · 2024-07-05

   Submitted Custom-Width Integer Types as a story · 5 points

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5. fanf2 · 2025-05-11

   Submitted Beating the fastest lexer generator in Rust as a story · 4 points

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6. enz · 2026-02-13

   Submitted Custom-Width Integer Types as a story · 2 points

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7. AndrewDucker · 2025-05-12

   Submitted Beating the Fastest Lexer Generator in Rust as a story · 2 points

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8. dist1ll · 2023-05-08

   Submitted On Custom-Width Integer Types as a story · 2 points

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9. dist1ll · 2022-09-21

   Submitted Renaming Our Company Revealed a Critical Bug as a story · 2 points

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10. gmays · 2022-08-01

    Submitted Comparing Yourself to Others Is Fine as a story · 2 points

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11. liuxiaopai · 2022-07-26

    Submitted Why comparing yourself to others is good for business growth as a story · 2 points

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12. dist1ll · 2022-07-24

    Submitted Comparing Yourself to Others Is Fine as a story · 2 points

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13. bubblehack3r · 2023-09-19

    Submitted Beating the Fastest Lexer Generator in Rust as a story · 1 points

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14. raider · 2023-09-19

    Submitted Beating the Fastest Lexer Generator in Rust as a story · 1 points

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15. Ygg2 · 2023-07-11

    Submitted Beating the Fastest Lexer Generator in Rust as a story · 1 points

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16. dist1ll · 2023-01-30

    Submitted Measuring the Impact of False Sharing as a story · 1 points

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17. dist1ll · 2022-11-24

    Submitted Avoiding benchmarking pitfalls with black_box in Rust as a story · 1 points

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