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Nicholas Nethercote

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2026 2

  1. How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
  2. How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026

2025 9

  1. How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025
  2. My new job
  3. Faster Rust builds on Mac
  4. Speed wins when fuzzing Rust code with `#[derive(Arbitrary)]`
  5. I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job
  6. How much code does that proc macro generate?
  7. How to speed up the Rust compiler in May 2025
  8. A home free from fossil fuels
  9. How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025

2024 3

  1. Streamlined dataflow analysis code in rustc
  2. How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2024
  3. Code review in the Rust compiler

2023 6

  1. How to speed up the Rust compiler in August 2023
  2. How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis update
  3. How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis assistance requested!
  4. Back-end parallelism in the Rust compiler
  5. Valgrind 3.21 is out
  6. How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2023

2022 7

  1. How to speed up the Rust compiler in October 2022
  2. Quirks of Rust's token representation
  3. Twenty years of Valgrind
  4. How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2022
  5. How to speed up the Rust compiler in April 2022
  6. How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2022
  7. Rust and Valgrind

2021 4

  1. A brutally effective hash function in Rust
  2. The Rust compiler has gotten faster again
  3. Jury Duty
  4. Bio-poem