Goal: Replace Gecko’s XML parser, libexpat, with a Rust-based XML parser Firefox currently uses an old, trimmed down, and slightly modified version of libexpat, a library written in C, to sup… (more…)

Currently, the Rust components are built differently on Android vs Linux. We are missing Rust support in our GN toolchain so we currently build the Rust libraries as a staticlib and link in C++. This may change in the future once we have better support. (more…)

Just writing about Rust stuff, Python automation, random tech subjects, and anything related to the world, virtual or not, dreamt or real. (more…)

Rust allows us to do functional programming. One important thing in FP is being also to pass functions as parameters and also return functio... (more…)

It can be hard to find Rust programs' performance bottlenecks online. By integrating pprof-rs in TiKV, we can use the Go tool pprof to visualize TiKV's profiling data. This helps analyze the program's performance online. (more…)