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  1. Wilfred Hughes (wilfredh@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 15:03:04 EDT Wilfred Hughes Wilfred Hughes

    Zero cost abstractions, and what persuades other developers to use our abstractions: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/zero-cost-abstractions/

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      The idea of a zero cost abstraction is very important to certain programming languages, like Rust and C++, which intend to enable users to write programs with excellent performance profiles with relatively little effort. Since this idea is fundamental to the design of Rust and my work, I want to investigate, for a moment, what exactly a zero cost abstraction even is. The idea is summarized in its original by Bjarne Stroustrup, the original developer of C++:
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