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Rust Meetup
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| With Frank McSherry (Chief Scientist, Materialize). |
| Materialize HQ, 436 Lafayette, 6th Fl |
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Jan 21 (Tue) , 2025 @ 06:00 PM
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FREE |
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The first meetup of 2025, & we have Frank McSherry, the Chief Scientist at Materialize, as our speaker!
More than ten years ago, before Rust was 1.0, Frank published his first crate: columnar. Now, ten years later, he's dusted it off & updated it with modern Rust (and hindsight) as a solution to a hard problem he had: efficiently laying out the memory of complex Rust types, but using only safe & idiomatic Rust. Now, as then, it's super interesting & he's excited to tell you about it!
The crate makes it easy to perform the "array of structs to struct of arrays" transformation. This transformation goes beyond structs, on to enums (sum types), list types, & also recursively defined types. You end up with a representation that can be an order of magnitude faster to work with, in safe Rust, but trades away "ownership" to do so. We'll walk through the design, implementation, evaluation & next directions for the work, & he'd love your input!
Come on down to the Materialize HQ! Doors open at 6:30pm to give people plenty of time to grab pizza & socialize, & then Frank's talk starts at 7:30!
It should be a good time! Hope to see you there!
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