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Rust Crates for RPC

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

prost

prost is a Protocol Buffers implementation for the Rust Language. It helps generate simple, idiomatic Rust code from proto2 and proto3 files.

Useful Rust Crates for Bit Manipulations

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

bytemuck

ByteMuck is a crate for mucking around with piles of bytes. It lets you safely perform "bit cast" operations between data types. That's where you take a value and just …

Memory Layout in Rust

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Different Types of Memory in Rust

Rust has 3 different types of memory: static memory, stack memory and heap memory.

  1. Static variables live in static memory and is determined at compile time. It is suggested that you define large data variables as static so that they live in the static memory instead of stack memory to avoid stack overflow problems. Of course, another way is to put those variables into heap memory (but at the cost of slight performance loss).