Let’s look at some of the progress on Rust compiler speed made since my last post. I will start with some important changes made by other people. (more…)

This post describes some performance work I have been doing recently on the Rust compiler, which is called rustc. I spent several weeks on a particular problem with only a small amount of success. I hope a write-up will be interesting and educational, and... (more…)

I'm going to look at design patterns that enables easy code testability. Most of the code I write at work is written in a traditional object-oriented language, and is almost exclusively using the pattern known as Dependency Injection (DI). (more…)

I’ve been using Go for the past few weeks. It’s my first time using Go for a large(-ish), serious project. I’ve previously looked at Go a lot, and I’ve played with examples and toy programs when… (more…)

I hereby certify that I am the sole author of this thesis. All the used materials, references to the literature and the work of others have been referred to. This thesis has not been presented for examination anywhere else. (more…)