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Are there any advantages of using Rust instead of C in the Linux kernel? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by BearPear to c/[email protected]

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Will there be performance and security improvements?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aside from that I think C is more performant than C++ (indeed when you use the bells and whistles that C++ offers), you are comparing the libraries with each other.

The fact that the implementation of one random std::Sort is faster than the implementation of qsort() is comparing libraries, not the languages. You are comparing the algorithm of the Rust Sort with quicksort (which is obviously the qsort you are referring to.

I am certain there are sort implementations in C which outperform Rust.

Having said that, I immensely enjoy Rust because it forces me to think about the error handling and it does not give me the quirks of C/C++ (index out of bounds, memory corruption).