Will there be performance and security improvements?

  • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Security? Probably. I wouldn’t expect any measurable improvements to performance but the with compiler being able to do more checks it might enable some clever optimization trickery that would be harder to maintain in C.

    Still, Rust on the kernel probably won’t leave the realm of drivers any time soon, so it all depends on if you have the hardware that will use a driver written in Rust.

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      1 year ago

      Also to add: allowing Rust can bring in more developers to the kernel, given the growing popularity.