e017: Point me where I need to go - a podcast by Chris Krycho

A deep dive on references and pointers in Rust.

Notes

By listener request, today we look at the syntax and semantics of referencing and dereferencing and the corresponding & and * operators.

As was the case with e016, the code samples have little to say in their documentation; reading the code will be necessary for seeing the ideas.

Links

• “Inside the Fastest Font Renderer in the World”


• The Rust Platform:
  
  
  
  • original blog post
    
    
    
    • Rust internals discussion
    
    
    • Reddit discussion
    
    
    • Hacker News discussion
    
    
  
  
  • follow-up
    
    
    
    • Reddit discussion
    
    
  
  


• Cargo vendoring support in nightly


• MIR on by default in nightly


• References and dereferencing:
  
  
  
  • The Rust Programming Language:
    
    
    
    • References and Borrowing
    
    
    • Deref coercions
    
    
  
  
  • Rust by Example: Flow Control: pointers/ref
  
  
  • The Rust Reference:
    
    
    
    • Unary Operator Expressions
    
    
    • Pointer Types
    
    
  
  

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