cargo-asm VS nom

cargo asm might be useful here (if you can't use godbolt).

They should be inlined in release mode. You'd have to verify by checking the assembly, though, which could be done directly in the Rust playground or with a tool like cargo-asm.

You can use cargo asm - not sure if you can integrate it with VSCode, but even from a terminal it's a pretty convenient tool.

There's probably a built-in one somewhere, but I suspect it'd be easier just to install https://github.com/gnzlbg/cargo-asm

I don't know if there's a way to do a side by side comparison but cargo-asm uses the source mapping information from rustc to annotate chunks of assembly with it's respective rust code, though it's an imperfect process.

After that you would need some tools to help figure out how to achieve improvements. That will depend on your system and personal preferences. As the other commenter suggested, perf is a good choice on linux. I personally like to look at the generated assembly, using either cargo asm, godbolt, or just rust playground.

Doesn't this already exist? https://github.com/gnzlbg/cargo-asm

From the flamegraph, we knew which function was taking the majority of the time, which we briefly described above. We started by looking at the assembly code it generated to see if there were any opportunities to make it faster. We did this with cargo-asm.

You're best bet at the moment is probably using cargo-asm to inspect the function assembly to see when it is performing the correct TCO.

Just in case you are not familiar with nom, it is a parser combinator written in Rust. The most basic thing you can do with it is import one of its parsing functions, give it some byte or string input and then get a Result as output with the parsed value and the rest of the input or an error if the parser failed. tag for example is used to recognize literal character/byte sequences.

I may be the only one not familiar, but nom refers to https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom which looks like a pretty handy way to parse binary data in Rust.

Lots of people use nom for their parsing needs, but that's not the only game in town and there other options.

As much as I love nom as well as other parser combinator libraries, regex-based parsers, BNF/EBNF-based parsers, etc. I always end up going back to plain old text-based char-by-char scanners.

I am using nom / nom_locate to build the parser side because I've done a handful of other projects with it, and I plan to use tower-lsp to hook up the language server side.

Look into a parsing library such as https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom

If we were in /r/learnrust I'd have recommended the nom crate for this.

Thanks to the flexibility of [nom](https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom), it is very easy to write your own parser in rust, read [this article](https://github.com/metaworm/luac-parser-rs/wiki/Write-custom-luac-parser) to learn how to write a luac parser

I've been working on an assembler and right now it uses nom. While nom isn't great for error messages, good error messages will be important for this particular assembler (current code), so I've been attempting to use the methods described by Eyal Kalderon in Error recovery with parser combinators (using nom).