Blobs in Games: 2020-02

From Red Blob Games's Blog

Rust memory optimization #

One of my goals this year is to learn new things that take more than a few weeks to learn. I've been learning Rust. One of the claims I saw is that Rust's borrow mechanics allow it to optimize better than C++ does. I wanted to see this in action so I ran some simple examples through godbolt. Here's some C++ code that reads from array A and writes to array B:

int test(const int* A, int* B, int i) {
    int x = A[i];
    B[i] = x+1;
    int y = A[i];
    return x+y;
}

Labels: rust