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by simias 2193 days ago
As far as I'm concerned "audiophile" has been synonymous with "overpriced placebo" basically forever.

Beyond that I wish the article had explain a bit better why it chose these "better-than-std" crates. I'm actually using all the std variants in my projects, I'm curious to know if I'm missing out or if I just happen not to hit on their limitations.
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cesarb 2193 days ago
> Beyond that I wish the article had explain a bit better why it chose these "better-than-std" crates.

At least for parking_lot, its README has a long list with its advantages over std: https://github.com/Amanieu/parking_lot/blob/master/README.md

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simias 2193 days ago
I saw that but I was interested to know if TFA had decided to go with it because it looks better on paper or if it's because they hit a roadblock using the std counterparts and migrated to using those.

That being said since they're drop-in replacements for the most part I suppose I could just try to rebuild my project with this crate and see if I notice a difference performance-wise.

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clpwn 2193 days ago
In our case, it wasn't a matter of hitting a specific roadblock as much as it was past experience in performance-sensitive projects, and knowing that if we start with those crates we'll probably be fine, and if we don't, we'll probably switch to them eventually for some reason.

With crossbeam for example, you can hit roadblocks with std since their channels are MPSC, whereas crossbeam supports MPMC channels (and is faster than std in every meaningful measurement last I checked).

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simias 2193 days ago
That's great to know, thanks!

Reading the description it almost seemed too good to be true but if it's indeed objectively better in basically every situation I should probably give it a try.

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spoopyskelly 2193 days ago
Might as well pick another language for your project if the current one has such shit standard libraries and you're "learning it on the job".
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bschwindHN 2193 days ago
What's wrong with learning a new technology on the job?

Rust leaves a lot of improvements to its standard library to the community, so these improvements start off as separate libraries for faster iteration. The most recent example I remember is the hashbrown crate replacing the standard HashMap.

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Macha 2192 days ago
Does that mean the other language's standard library is better? That it has better third party libraries?
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