What the fuck is with the person in the email chain implying not all drivers can be written in Rust? Rust does literally everything C can, nothing stopping you from using unsafe properly to achieve that.
A more serious answer would be that Rust can’t be compiled to all targets. There is a lot of work to get Rust to compile with gcc though, which would help with this tremendously.
That’s a performance optimisation which llvm is likely to do for you anyways, jump tables aren’t exactly rocket science. Gazing into my crystal ball, might have to turn your enum variant Foo(u8) with possible values 0…15 into Foo0 through Foo15 (or maybe better Foo(EnumWith16Variants)) so that the compiler doesn’t have to evaluate code to figure out that it doesn’t need to NOP the rest of the jump range out, or bail out of generating a jump table, whatever it would do.
What the fuck is with the person in the email chain implying not all drivers can be written in Rust? Rust does literally everything C can, nothing stopping you from using unsafe properly to achieve that.
A more serious answer would be that Rust can’t be compiled to all targets. There is a lot of work to get Rust to compile with gcc though, which would help with this tremendously.
Gnu C has computed goto.
That’s a performance optimisation which llvm is likely to do for you anyways, jump tables aren’t exactly rocket science. Gazing into my crystal ball, might have to turn your enum variant
Foo(u8)with possible values 0…15 intoFoo0throughFoo15(or maybe betterFoo(EnumWith16Variants)) so that the compiler doesn’t have to evaluate code to figure out that it doesn’t need to NOP the rest of the jump range out, or bail out of generating a jump table, whatever it would do.But is it used in the kernel?