Last week, Ibrahim Dursun published an article about zero-cost abstractions in Rust. Unfortunately, except for a subpart of the article, this article did not reflect, in my own opinion, correctly what are zero-cost abstractions. Indeed, zero-cost abstractions, or “zero-overhead”, can be difficult to understand and to separate from other compiler optimizations, and can be easily misunderstood. In this blog article, I discuss about this specific feature, and give you an example of how Rust ...
