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Jamie Turner from Dropbox gave a talk at a Rust meetup in 2017: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/ https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/ Edi
by jhurwitz 7y ago
Jamie Turner from Dropbox gave a talk at a Rust meetup in 2017: https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/ https://air.mozilla.org/rust-meetup-may-2017/
Edit: at 30:05 in that video, he briefly talks about a forthcoming (as of 2017) "full redesign + rewrite of Dropbox's 'sync engine' in Rust." He claims it will use 10x less memory, and be 50x faster on key operations.
- agumonkey 7y agoThanks for the link, missed it
- zerd 7y agoThe also mention it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14926851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14926851 strings /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Frameworks/libdropbox_watchdog.dylib | grep -i rust shows some hits: __ZN14rustc_demangle8demangle17h2ad719809986c0fcE _rust_begin_unwind /Users/vagrant/client-dropbox-python/dropbox-virtual-env-3985da1e510f-mac-x86_64-10.14/rust/lib/rustlib/x86_64-apple-darwin/lib/libcompiler_builtins-f10e664516557f83.rlib(compiler_builtins-f10e664516557f83.compiler_builtins.7wkmozn8-cgu.0.rcgu.o) ___rust_probestack /Users/travis/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/compiler_builtins-0.1.5/src/probestack.rs ___rust_alloc ___rust_dealloc ___rust_realloc ___rust_alloc_zeroed /Users/vagrant/src/client/rust_vendor/hyper-0.10.13/src/buffer.rs /Users/vagrant/src/client/rust_vendor/serde_json-1.0.33/src/read.rs ... Looks like they use it fairly lightly though.