wg-allocators VS llvm-project

Compare wg-allocators vs llvm-project and see what are their differences.

wg-allocators

Home of the Allocators working group: Paving a path for a standard set of allocator traits to be used in collections! (by rust-lang)

llvm-project

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. (by llvm)
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wg-allocators

Posts with mentions or reviews of wg-allocators. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-03.
  • Anouncing `stabby` 1.0!
    6 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jun 2023
    Tracking issue for Storages, and a TLDR on what it is
  • What backwards-incompatible changes would you make in a hypothetical Rust 2.0?
    10 projects | /r/rust | 19 Apr 2023
  • Custom allocators in Rust
    4 projects | /r/rust | 6 Apr 2023
    I must have gotten confused, since from your brief discussion with CAD97 it seemed like there was a way for the concepts to live separately and that Storage could complicate things in comparison. But if implementing Allocator in terms of Storage is basically equivalent and Storage is flexible enough that I could write one to pass memory out to unsafe code, that works just as well.
  • Zig and Rust
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2023
    https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1974-global-allocators.html was the original RFC.

    My vague understanding is that there's a working group https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-allocators

    The further I get from working on Rust day to day, the less I know about these things, so that's all I've got for you.

  • Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing language
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2023
    If you self-reference using pointers and guarantee the struct will never move, you don't even need unsafe. If you self-reference using offsets from the struct's base pointer, you need a splash of unsafe but your struct can be freely moved without invalidating its self-referential "pointers".

    Per-struct allocators are a work in progress (see https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-allocators/issues/48).

    Not sure what "non thread local addresses" means, but in my experience Rust is pretty good at sending data between threads (without moving it).

  • Rust is coming to the Linux kernel
    7 projects | /r/programming | 20 Sep 2022
  • FunDSP 0.1.0, an audio processing and synthesis library
    3 projects | /r/rust | 31 Jan 2022
    Besides that allocation is not really a problem for no_std. It's resolved by using alloc crate directly, so anything usable with custom allocators is supported. Example in dasp sources - https://github.com/RustAudio/dasp/blob/master/dasp_slice/src/boxed.rs#L14-L19 . Also worth looking at this issue to check what is usable already - https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-allocators/issues/7
  • Andrew Kelley claims Zig is faster than Rust in perfomance
    1 project | /r/rust | 16 Jan 2022
    But that's on track for rust as well: https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-allocators/issues/7
  • Which important features from C/C++ are missing in Rust
    9 projects | /r/rust | 18 Dec 2021
    Here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1398. there is also a working group for this: https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-allocators.
  • Box<T> allocator override?
    1 project | /r/rust | 19 Aug 2021
    It's unstable. wg-allocators contains discussions about design and a tracking issue for collections that need an allocator https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-allocators/issues/7

llvm-project

Posts with mentions or reviews of llvm-project. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-06.
  • Playing with DragonRuby Game Toolkit (DRGTK)
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2024
    This Ruby implementation is based on mruby and LLVM and it’s commercial software but cheap.
  • Add support for Qualcomm Oryon processor
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2024
  • Ask HN: Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
    'Computer Architeture: A Quantitative Apporach" and/or more specific design types (mips, arm, etc) can be found under the Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architeture and Design.

    "Getting Started with LLVM Core Libraries: Get to Grips With Llvm Essentials and Use the Core Libraries to Build Advanced Tools "

    "The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) : LLVM" https://aosabook.org/en/v1/llvm.html

    "Tourist Guide to LLVM source code" : https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1453

    llvm home page : https://llvm.org/

    llvm tutorial : https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

    llvm reference : https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html

    learn by examples : C source code to 'llvm' bitcode : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9148890/how-to-make-clan...

  • Flang-new: How to force arrays to be allocated on the heap?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2024
    See

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/88344

    https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/flang-new-how-to-forc...

  • The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
  • Programming from Top to Bottom - Parsing
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    You can never mistake type_declaration with an identifier, otherwise the program will not work. Aside from that constraint, you are free to name them whatever you like, there is no one standard, and each parser has it own naming conventions, unless you are planning to use something like LLVM. If you are interested, you can see examples of naming in different language parsers in the AST Explorer.
  • Look ma, I wrote a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024
    > There is one way to make the LLVM JIT compiler more usable, but I fear it’s going to take years to be implemented: being able to cache and reuse compiled queries.

    Actually, it's implemented in LLVM for years :) https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a98546ebcd2a692e...

  • C++ Safety, in Context
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2024
    > It's true, this was a CVE in Rust and not a CVE in C++, but only because C++ doesn't regard the issue as a problem at all. The problem definitely exists in C++, but it's not acknowledged as a problem, let alone fixed.

    Can you find a link that substantiates your claim? You're throwing out some heavy accusations here that don't seem to match reality at all.

    Case in point, this was fixed in both major C++ libraries:

    https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/ebf6175464768983a2d...

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/4f67a909902d8ab9...

    So what C++ community refused to regard this as an issue and refused to fix it? Where is your supporting evidence for your claims?

  • Clang accepts MSVC arguments and targets Windows if its binary is named clang-cl
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    For everyone else looking for the magic in this almost 7k lines monster, look at line 6610 [1].

    [1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/8ec28af8eaff5acd0d...

  • Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024
    Through value tracking. It's actually LLVM that does this, GCC probably does it as well, so in theory explicit bounds checks in regular C code would also be removed by the compiler.

    How it works exactly I don't know, and apparently it's so complex that it requires over 9000 lines of C++ to express:

    https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Anal...

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