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Jason Williams
Personal blog · jason-williams.co.ukprogramming
Jason Williams's personal blog at jason-williams.co.uk covers programming. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “A possible new back end for Rust”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on a possible new Cranelift backend for Rust, a fast debug code generator that emits code faster than LLVM while being less optimised. The commenter cites it as an explanation of that work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A possible new back end for Rust5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-04-14
What Hacker News says?
There’s ongoing work for a fast debug back end called Cranelift. It emits code 20-50% faster than LLVM while being less optimised. Explained further here - https://jason-williams.co.uk/a-possible-new-backend-for-rust
Comment linking /a-possible-new-backend-for-rust
on “Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available?”Submitted A possible new back end for Rust as a story · 526 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding up VSCode extensions in 2022 as a story · 179 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Possible New Backend for Rust as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a JavaScript Interpreter in Rust as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a JavaScript Interpreter in Rust Part 1 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust Enhanced reaches 50k downloads as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cranelift: A possible new back end for Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Possible New Back End for Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chromium adds support for initiator blackboxing as a story · 1 points
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