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bjorn3
Personal blog · bjorn3.github.ioprogrammingsystems
bjorn3 is a personal blog at bjorn3.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Progress report on Rust Cranelift back end”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link bjorn3's blog for progress reports on Rust compiler work, including the Cranelift backend and Rust in the Linux kernel. The comments cite its updates on project status.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Progress report on Rust Cranelift back end3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-02
- Progress report on rustc_codegen_cranelift (Oct 2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-31
What Hacker News says?
Is there no native support for M1-M3 Macs currently, and no Windows support either? Unclear what the roadmap is there, as this update from the most active contributor is inconclusive: > Windows support has been omitted for now. And for macOS currently on supports x86_64 as Apple invented their own calling convention for arm64 for which variadic functions can’t easily be implemented as hack. If you are using an M1 pr…
Comment linking /2023/10/31/progress-report-oct-2023.html
on “Cranelift code generation comes to Rust”Submitted Progress report on rustc_codegen_cranelift (June 2025) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's coming along well, here's an update from 2 weeks ago https://bjorn3.github.io/2022/10/12/progress-report-okt-2022...
Comment linking /2022/10/12/progress-report-okt-2022.html
on “Rust in the Linux Kernel: Just the Beginning”Submitted Progress Report on Rustc_codegen_cranelift as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn case anyone is wondering what’s happening with this, there was a progress report in Sept https://bjorn3.github.io/2020/09/28/progress-report-sep-2020...
Comment linking /2020/09/28/progress-report-sep-2020.html
on “A New Back End for Cranelift”Submitted Progress report on Rust Cranelift back end as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe compiler itself is fine and its performance well managed, with weekly perf triage and efforts driven by profiling[1], but because adding dependencies is effortless and vetting them isn't, dependency trees tend to get large if not careful. In particular, widely used proc-macros (code transformations pulled by popular packages like serde, clap, tokio…) add very heavy dependencies (like syn) to the critical path. A…
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on “Rust Survey 2021 Results”Submitted Progress report on rustc_codegen_cranelift (Sep 2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> How much can the frontend really impact compile times? Your question is addressed in this blog post - Faster compilation with the parallel front-end in nightly ( https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/11/09/parallel-rustc.html ). One the example shown there: - Serial took 10.2 seconds in the frontend and 6.2 seconds in the backend. - Parallel tool 5.9 seconds (-42%) and 5.3 seconds (-14.5%). So to answer your question, p…
Comment linking /2024/11/14/progress-report-nov-2024.html
on “Rust’s Incremental Compiler Architecture”Submitted Progress report on rustc_codegen_cranelift (Oct 2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progress report on rustc_codegen_cranelift (July 2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing bootstrap of rustc using cg_clif as a story · 1 points
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