Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Eric McCorkle]

On 12/31/18 9:21 AM, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:

> Does the generated code size increase or decrease and does the
> data-path get longer or shorter with switch from C to Rust with all
> the "great features" of Rust? Are there any metrics for these? If a
> CPU cache gets trashed repeatedly or data takes massive d-tours that
> would be a significant downside, wouldn't it?

Since most of the deltas of Rust over C are accomplished through
type-checking, I don't imagine this would be an issue.

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