`std::vector` is often said to be the default container, because it provides good baseline performance for common operations. Recently, I experimented with a simple API change that can improve the performance of a common usage pattern by 10+ %.

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In my recent post about the Rust compiler CI (continuous integration) and benchmarking infrastructure, I have promised to write a blog post about runtime benchmarks, which is a new addition to the benchmark suite of the Rust compiler. However, I realized…

An optimising compiler typically applies some set of rewrites to some intermediate representation of the program, replacing terms with other terms which are supposed to be equivalent but more effic...

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