A deep dive on references and pointers in Rust.

Notes

By listener request, today we look at the syntax and semantics of referencing and dereferencing and the corresponding & and * operators.

As was the case with e016, the code samples have little to say in their documentation; reading the code will be necessary for seeing the ideas.

Links

• “Inside the Fastest Font Renderer in the World”
• The Rust Platform:
  • original blog post
    • Rust internals discussion
    • Reddit discussion
    • Hacker News discussion
  • follow-up
    • Reddit discussion
• Cargo vendoring support in nightly
• MIR on by default in nightly
• References and dereferencing:
  • The Rust Programming Language:
    • References and Borrowing
    • Deref coercions
  • Rust by Example: Flow Control: pointers/ref
  • The Rust Reference:
    • Unary Operator Expressions
    • Pointer Types

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