Compiler

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Some exciting PRs landing this week. First, nrc’s first HIR PR, which itself doesn’t do much, but hopefully is a modest starting point for a stable AST API and so forth. Second, the MIR PR by yours truly looks likely to land, if I can find the time to fix a lingering issues on Windows. Third, a small tweak to the trait matching code by arielb1 that yields a nice little performance improvement.

– nmatsakis

Language

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It’s been a busy week this week! First off, we accepted a number of RFCs:

We also moved a number of RFCs to final comment period:

RFC #1199 – SIMD groundwork, which describes a flexible set of intrinsics that enable SIMD computation. These intrinsics are not intended to be used directly; rather, they are meant to be a foundation for third-party packages. See also Huon’s excellent blog post on the topic.

RFC #1224 – RFC process, which helps to clarify when an RFC is needed.

RFC #1237 – clarify operator behavior in extreme conditions, which amends the overflow RFC with some more specifics documenting various bits of the implementation.

RFC #1238 – nonparametric dropck, which reverts some of the more subtle aspects of the current dropck rules, helping to restore soundness and pave the way for specialization.

RFC #1240 – creating references into #[repr(packed)] structs should be unsafe, as they can violate alignment requirements and cause crashes.

Thanks!

– nmatsakis

Libraries

We didn’t hold a triage meeting this week so no report for now, but remember that FCP for library issues will be closing next week and we will discuss this at the next triage meeting.

Tools

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Over the past month or so since our last report there have been some excellent tooling updates, I’ll try to list a bunch below but if any are left out please let me know and I’ll be sure to add them!