Further optimising rustc, with a mix of direct performance work and improving the toolchain for benchmarking! https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/08/05/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-some-more-in-2020/
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The literal 0xffu8 in Rust is pretty tricky to read without syntax highlighting. It looks like a plain hexadecimal value at first.
(Why not have syntax highlighting? Ironically I was debugging and improving VS Code's Rust highlighting.)
I'm super impressed that LLMs are scaling down and WebGPU is improving to the point that you can run a reasonable LLM in the browser!
Rust macro errors are significantly improving:
