Rust: Spring Cleaning and Performance Wins
The Rust team merged 12 pull requests on March 8th, 2026, featuring a major bootstrap update to version 1.95.0, critical ARM64 Windows unwind fixes, and several performance optimizations including ThinLTO pipeline improvements and incremental cache refinements. Notable contributors include cuviper, dpaoliello, and Zalathar leading efforts across compiler infrastructure and platform stability.
Duration: PT3M51S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Rust.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Rust
- Published: 2026-03-08T10:24:15Z
- Audio duration: PT3M51S
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Hey there, Rustaceans! Welcome back to another episode of the Rust podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have some exciting updates to dive into today. Grab your favorite beverage because we've got 12 merged pull requests that are going to make your development life better.
Let's jump right into the big news - we've got ourselves a major bootstrap update! Our friend cuviper has been busy updating the compiler infrastructure to version 1.95.0. Now, I know bootstrap updates might not sound like the most thrilling thing, but think of it like renovating your workshop. You're getting newer,…
Speaking of making things better, we had some fantastic performance wins land today. Zalathar has been on a mission to streamline our query system, and they've done something really clever with the predicates_of query. They realized it was doing double work - caching to disk when the underlying queries were already…
Here's something that'll make our ARM64 Windows users very happy - dpaoliello fixed a nasty bug that was truncating panic backtraces. The problem was that the compiler wasn't generating the right trap instructions after calls to functions that never return. Without these instructions,…
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