woot! Happy birthday! On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:58 PM Max Reitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> The issues of using C are well understood and nobody likes it. Let's use > a better language. C++ is not a better language, Rust is. Everybody > loves Rust. Rust is good. Rust is hip. It will attract developers, it > will improve code quality, it will improve performance, it will even > improve your marriage. Rust is the future and the future is now. > > As the block layer, let's show our commitment to the future by replacing > one of our core parts, the the LEGACY (Bah! Yuck! Ugh!) qcow2 driver, by > a shiny (Oooh! Aaah!) Rust driver. Much better. My VMs now run thrice as > fast. Promise. > > > Max Reitz (4): > block: Add Rust interface > block/qcow2-rust: Add qcow2-rust block driver > block/qcow2-rust: Add partial write support > block/qcow2-rust: Register block driver > > configure | 2 + > Makefile | 6 +- > Makefile.target | 2 +- > block/Makefile.objs | 1 + > block/qcow2-rust.c | 38 ++ > block/rust/Cargo.toml | 10 + > block/rust/src/interface/c_constants.rs | 8 + > block/rust/src/interface/c_functions.rs | 37 + > block/rust/src/interface/c_structs.rs | 587 ++++++++++++++++ > block/rust/src/interface/mod.rs | 1012 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > block/rust/src/lib.rs | 12 + > block/rust/src/qcow2/allocation.rs | 162 +++++ > block/rust/src/qcow2/io.rs | 439 ++++++++++++ > block/rust/src/qcow2/mod.rs | 347 ++++++++++ > block/rust/src/qcow2/on_disk_structures.rs | 59 ++ > block/rust/src/qcow2/refcount.rs | 96 +++ > 16 files changed, 2816 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 block/qcow2-rust.c > create mode 100644 block/rust/Cargo.toml > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/interface/c_constants.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/interface/c_functions.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/interface/c_structs.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/interface/mod.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/lib.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/qcow2/allocation.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/qcow2/io.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/qcow2/mod.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/qcow2/on_disk_structures.rs > create mode 100644 block/rust/src/qcow2/refcount.rs > > --- > > Yes, I'm late. I thought somebody else would do something but nobody > did. It's still April, though, so I think I'm all good. Also, it's my > birthday today so you're not allowed to complain! > > I could have waited until next year, but I'm afraid it would no longer > have been funny by then because we might truly have Rust code in master > then... > > -- > 2.12.2 > > > -- Marc-André Lureau
