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Re:Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++ by xiphias2 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @10:15AM (#21016361)
You're right, but it still looks like a big improvement. It means that Firefox devs can write every new functionality in Rust, no matter how small it is.
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Re:Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++ by phkahler on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:07AM (#21016883)
>> It means that Firefox devs can write every new functionality in Rust, no matter how small it is.

True, but they should still focus on oxidizing whole modules and subsystems in their entirety whenever possible.

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