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Optimizing the new trait solver Press for table of Contents This is a more detailed writeup of all the changes we made in the past months to optimize the performance of the next trait solver.

It's the people that matter Press for table of Contents Over the past two years, I've been involved with designing and implementing a new feature of rustc, called "externally implementable items".

The turn of a friendly card (instrumental) My guitar tab of "The turn of a friendly card", by the Alan Parsons Project [verse] v use left thumb on E string e|----0---|0-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|…

A window to the past My guitar tab of "a window to the past", by John Williams 6/3 9/3 6/3 9/3 e|-0-----0---2-|-3---2-0-----------|-5---7-3---2-|-3---2-0-----------| b|-----3---0---|-----------0-----0-|-------------|-…

Pipes in Python Press for table of Contents A feature I've always liked in languages, is the pipe operator.

A small adventure in the standard library Press for table of Contents While writing some machinery for dealing with spans on built-in attributes last month, I was slightly bothered by a missing method on Iterator.

Deprecated on re-exports Press for table of Contents Deprecated is an attribute you can put on items to mark them as, well, deprecated.

Testing the crate root Press for table of Contents I woke up last weekend, and someone assigned me to a PR to review.

Maintaining the Rust compiler Press for table of Contents The rust compiler is a giant project.

Arenas Press for table of Contents Sometimes you just really need an arena.

Incremental Compilation Press for table of Contents Over the past week I've been trying to understand rust's incremental compilation model by implementing it myself.

Global Registration Press for table of Contents You might not have considered this before, but tests in Rust are rather magical.