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Stina
Personal blog · morestina.net/blogprogrammingsystems
Stina's personal blog at morestina.net covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “A close encounter with false sharing in Rust”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Stina's posts on Rust async being 'colored' and on lock-free Rust performance. Threads discuss the author's shifting view on async and a benchmark comparing Rust with Java.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ramblings about whatever
Most-linked posts?
- A close encounter with false sharing in Rust6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-11-20
- Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-03-14
- Exploring Lock-Free Rust (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-24
What Hacker News says?
First it was "Rust's async isn't f#@king colored!" ( https://www.hobofan.com/blog/2021-03-10-rust-async-colored/ ) Then "Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal" https://morestina.net/blog/1686/rust-async-is-colored And now it's a good thing. Honestly, this sounds like somebody struck Achilles' heel of Rust and it hurts. They're neatly covering 3 stages of grief over these 3 articles, and I wouldn't be surp…
Comment linking /blog/1686/rust-async-is-colored
on “Red and blue functions are a good thing”Submitted Exploring Lock-Free Rust (2017) as a story · 39 points
HN discussionThis is the first of a series of three blog posts, with quite an interesting conclusion in the final post[1]: > On my 2012 desktop workstation with 3GHz Xeon W3550, the Java benchmark reports an average of 7.3 ns per getTransformed invocation. The Rust benchmark reports 128 ns in get_transformed, a whopping 17 times slower execution. [...] This article was written five years ago and things may have changed for bette…
Comment linking /blog/784/exploring-lock-free-rust-3-crossbeam
on “Exploring Lock-Free Rust (2017)”Submitted Exploring lock-free Rust: from locks, via atomics, to Crossbeam as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contention on multi-threaded regex matching in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A close encounter with false sharing in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A close encounter with false sharing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stable HashMap Trap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parallel stream processing with Rayon in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A close encounter with false sharing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A close encounter with false sharing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A close encounter with false sharing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A close encounter with false sharing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgradable parking_lot:RwLock might not be what you expect as a story · 1 points
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