Kernighan shared his thoughts on what he thinks of the world today — with its push away from C to more memory-safe programming languages, its hundreds of distributions of Linux — and with descendants of Unix powering nearly every cellphone.
  • mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org
    171·
    4 days ago

    The default for cargo is debug builds why that would surprise anyone as being slower is beyond me, —release isn’t that much extra to type or alias. Do people not learn how their tools work any longer? This isn’t that far off from c/c++ where you set cflags etc to fit the final binaries purpose.

    • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
      4·
      3 days ago

      Tbf this mistake comes up so often I do wonder if cargo should have defaulted to release builds. It seems to be what beginners expect.

      • nrab@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Gcc, clang, msvc, and all the other compilers also don’t optimize by default. It’s very normal and very expected for the default build to not include optimizations

        • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
          11·
          2 days ago

          Sure but you don’t normally run GCC or Clang directly; you make, and that normally does optimise. I think a closer example is CMake which doesn’t enable release mode by default.

          MSVC is usually run from Visual Studio which makes it obvious which mode is being used so the default doesn’t matter so much.

          As for “all the other compilers”, Go optimises by default. It does seem to be the exception though…