Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul

Re:Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul by zozbot234 on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:55PM (#30744314)

The fact that modern CPU architectures in general have abandoned custom prediction hints suggests that static branch prediction is being viewed as less important.

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Re:Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul by titzer on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:23PM (#30747326)

Sure, but default "predict not-taken" is a very decent zero-cost heuristic that hardware will probably keep using for the foreseeable future.

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