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Async Rust: The new billion-dollar mistake? by Sylvain Kerkour

kerkour.com
10 points·by robertbarbe·2 jaar geleden·1 comments

Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing C++ code

github.com
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robertbarbe
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
This work is inspiring. Congratulations to those students.
robertbarbe
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
His intro: Today I will explain why I often call async/await the "new billion dollar mistake": a mistake that has probably caused billions in developer productivity and bugs in the past ten years, especially in the context of Rust.
robertbarbe
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Thanks for taking the time to respond and analyze my comment! - The bigger the slope (in space), the faster (in time) the temperature changes at that point -

I have to confess that I got it wrong, indeed: the right side of the equation is a Laplacian. But, rather than describing an average in temperature, it describes the divergence of the temperature field.
robertbarbe
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Thanks @photon_lines! In your temperature diagram, you mention that every point will take the average of the neighboring points. However, the equation is not a constraint on the temperature but on the "change of the slope (or gradient) of the temperature". The bigger the slope (in space), the faster (in time) the temperature changes at that point!
robertbarbe
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
It seems the Samsung Knox security services rely on the Android Strongbox spec.

It is not clear that a user would actually want to trade-off hardware based security (where encryption, signature verification happens in "tamperproof" / secure silicon) for some unspecified additional RAM.

In fact, the article does not benchmark RAM/CPU/Battery usage from the service. I would speculate that there is very little benefit in wanting a few MB of extra RAM when smartphones have north of 4GB of RAM and need strong security for payments and handling personal data.