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That’s a deep dive through layers and layers of abstraction from Rust to LLVM intrinsics to instruction expansion at the processor level.

It’s fascinating stuff but as much as I like Rust, I still have no idea at what point I would ever need such a thing.

https://questdb.com/blog/rust-fetch-max-compiler-journey

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