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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

One thing where #Rust is pretty inconvenient to use IMHO, when you want to optimize your code in a way that you want to modify data "within its space". I.e. purposely overwrite the same data chunk that you are iterating. Totally doable but not something you tend to do. Sort of thing that is against its design principles. #rustlang
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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E.g. I could have saved 7 bytes of stack by doing that sort of thing but do not want to do the effort because of inconvenience :-) Making world bloat again
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Jarkko Sakkinen

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Edited 7 months ago
E.g. if you have a hex string in stack, you could convert it to a binary to either head or tail of that memory block by overwriting it as you iterate. Further any data conversion where you convert any data from more sparse format to more compressed format.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

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Overwriting data is the new "goto" sort of looking at more modern languages than C :-)
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