Re: Re: Exploring using Rust for implementing a faster ZEO server.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 1:18 PM, wilk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25-09-2016, Jim Fulton wrote:
>> I'm exploring using Rust to implement a faster ZEO server.  To do a
>> quick performance comparison, I implemented a file-storage iterator in
>> Rust. It's about 20x faster (40x excluding system time) than the
>> Python version.
>>
>> Here's a write-up:
>>
>> http://jimfulton.info/site/2016/Sep/25/experiment-compare-zodb-file-storage-iteration-with-python-and-rust/
>
> Very interresting, thanks to share your experience.
>
> You mention often Go. Did you try it also ?

I've tried to use Go a number of times, but it always annoys me. :)

- I think it's error handling is a huge pain.

- As is lack of generics.

Rust:

- is generally faster, because no run time.

- It's error handling is also annoying. Like Go, the proper way to
check for errors is by checking return values. However, in Rust
there's a powerful type system, pattern matching and macros that make
error handling much much saner.

- It has generics and a powerful type system.

- It's memory-management system is fascinating and maddening, pushing
as much memory-management logic as it can to compile time. It's more
fun than a video game. ;)

> I think the storage part will not offer anything but maybe the server
> part will be easier to code ?

Idk.

> I don't know Rust, but in Go I was surprise how it was easy to turn
> anything to a very efficient server without any external dependency.

BTW, Rust embraces dependency rather than welding batteries in place.
I consider this a feature. :)

Jim

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