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Re:Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf] by mkl on Thursday November 08, 2018 @04:52PM (#18410381)
For a network driver, 2ms seems enormous. At 1Gbps that's 250 kilobytes, which is an awful lot of packets.
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Re:Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf] by discoball on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:03PM (#18410469)
But GC doesn’t run continuously! Sure, device drivers and kernel modules should be built in C. Everything else is an approximation.
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