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Re:Four Years of Rust by buckminster on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:27PM (#19923944)
> Of course, for short-running programs, just malloc, don't free, is the fastest.

A custom malloc that knew free would never be called would be faster still. I wonder if any short-running utilities do this?

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Re:Four Years of Rust by pornel on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @06:48PM (#19924550)
AFAIK the D compiler is basically this.
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Re:Four Years of Rust by wyatwerp on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:05PM (#19924656)
And it is a short-running utility :-)
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