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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by antientropic on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:05PM (#14753679)
It pulls in a huge runtime system, though (including stuff like garbage collection). This makes it much heavier than calling some Rust code.
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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by marcosdumay on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:20PM (#14755081)
True, where "huge" means something around 10MB.

For many projects that is a showstopper.

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