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Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by steveklabnik on Saturday December 03, 2016 @11:15PM (#13098759)
> After the quadratic hashes

Reference: http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/153545455987/ru...

(bugs happen, fix is in the queue, life goes on)

> rumored memory issues

Rumors are just rumors. If you (or anyone else) has more than FUD here, please email https://www.rust-lang.org/security.html .

Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by kbd on Saturday December 03, 2016 @11:49PM (#13098828)
Thanks for the link to the explanation of the hash table bug!

> One proposal is that hash tables ought to retain their insertion order...

This seems to be something that a lot of hash table implementations are converging on:

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/01/faster-more-memory-eff...

Do you happen to have a link to the discussion for the Rust proposal?

Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by tatterdemalion on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:26AM (#13098905)
Here's the discussion about this problem on Rust's internals forum:

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/help-harden-hashmap-in-lib...

Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by steveklabnik on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:00AM (#13098855)
I don't happen to have a link handy, no. I'm not even sure if it's a formal proposal or something someone happened to suggest one time, off the top of my head.
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Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by loeg on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:42AM (#13098924)
> You've threatened to kill people on twitter

What?

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Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by me551ah on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:46AM (#13098936)
Do you have any proof? These seem to be pretty big accusations.
Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by steveklabnik on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:55AM (#13098952)
Last time this troll popped up, [1] they claimed that I told people to kill themselves. Which I absolutely do not. Now apparently it's threatening to kill other people, which I most certainly have not.

They claimed that I have deleted said tweets so that people wouldn't see them (which also doesn't make much sense) and that they didn't grab a screenshot (which also wouldn't make sense given that it's easy to edit the HTML of a webpage and take a screenshot.)

So uh, yeah.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12970148

Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by steveklabnik on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:57AM (#13098960)
I can't believe that I (apparently) have to say this, but I

1. Would certainly not threaten to kill anyone on twitter.

2. Would certainly not threaten to kill someone for reporting a security vulnerability in Rust.

In fact, as I said above, I would prefer that people report them, so that everyone using Rust can be safe from vulnerabilities.

Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by latrasis on Sunday December 04, 2016 @02:04AM (#13099099)
Just want to say I really admire your work. It's sad to see people trolling like this.
Re:Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released by steveklabnik on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:39PM (#13100799)
Thanks. It's pretty much just a part of my life at this point.