mastodon 4.7.3Fan of Rust, open source maintainer.
From an LLD maintainer: “wild is worth calling out separately: its user time is comparable to lld's but its system time is roughly half, and its parse phase is 4-8x faster than either of the C++ linkers.”
https://maskray.me/blog/2026-04-12-recent-lld-elf-performance-improvements
(Via @llvmweekly@fosstodon.org.)
An update on rustls performance: it’s still pretty fast.
Very cool to see that Google is using Hickory DNS (which I help maintain) to power DNS message parsing in the Pixel firmware!
https://security.googleblog.com/2026/04/bringing-rust-to-pixel-baseband.html?m=1
So Mozilla is spending some of its revenue on sponsoring a football club now?
On my trusty M1 Max, a tiny test crate with graviola 0.4 as its single dependency runs clean `cargo check` 1.31x faster than with sha2 0.11, and clean `cargo build` 1.11x faster.
After 13 months of work, today we released Hickory DNS 0.26.0 (our memory-safe DNS libraries and server), which should be more robust, faster and easier to use correctly. Detailed release notes are here:
https://github.com/hickory-dns/hickory-dns/releases/tag/v0.26.0
I suppose asking for new contributors on a popular programming language blog is equivalent to inviting a slop tsunami.
Wow, Bluesky is not having a good day today.
@gvwilson@mastodon.social Rust has const as a language-level construct to represent fixed values, and also has a std library type for one-way flag.
@cliffle@hachyderm.io FWIW, your blog's TLS certificate seems to have expired.
