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2026-09-30
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2026-09-30
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2026-09-30
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2026-09-09
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[LWN subscriber-only content] The null block driver (null_blk) is a small driver that is mostly useful for benchmarking block-layer implementations. It accepts all requests and marks them complete as quickly as possible, doing as little wor...
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2026-09-02
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2026-08-12
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2026-07-29
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Proceed to the article Alexei Starovoitov gave "less of a presentation, more of a scream of realization" at the BPF track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He shared a set of ideas for how BPF could c...
Project/Tooling Updates
2026-06-03
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[LWN subscriber-only content] In Rust, types either possess a constant size known at compile time, or a dynamically calculated size known at run time. That is fine for most purposes, but recent proposals for the language have shown the need...
Project/Tooling Updates
2026-04-22
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Rust's compiler team has been working on a long-term project to rewrite the trait solver — the part of the compiler that determines which concrete function should be called when a programmer uses a trait method that is implemented for multi...
Project/Tooling Updates
2026-04-01
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Project/Tooling Updates
2026-02-11
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A few years ago, the only way to compile Rust code was using the rustc compiler with LLVM as a backend. Since then, several projects, including Mutabah's Rust Compiler (mrustc), GCC's Rust support (gccrs), rust_codegen_gcc, and Cranelift ha...
Project/Tooling Updates
2026-02-04
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2026-01-14
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