[WIP 0/3] Memory model and atomic API in Rust

Kent Overstreet kent.overstreet at linux.dev
Wed Mar 27 11:50:48 PDT 2024


On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 09:16:09AM -0700, comex wrote:
> Meanwhile, Rust intentionally lacks strict aliasing.

I wasn't aware of this. Given that unrestricted pointers are a real
impediment to compiler optimization, I thought that with Rust we were
finally starting to nail down a concrete enough memory model to tackle
this safely. But I guess not?



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