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Re:Rust and Nix = easier Unix systems programming by arielb1 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @05:45AM (#11495333)
We do have a planned optimization that would fold the tags for cases like `Option<ForkResult>` to give a word pair, which should be returned in %eax:%edx (or %rax:%rdx).
Re:Rust and Nix = easier Unix systems programming by Jweb_Guru on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:01AM (#11496738)
Really? That's exciting. Missed enum layout optimizations are one of my few issues with Rust right now.