Bzip2 in Rust: porting the randomization table

https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/bzip2-in-rust-randomization-table.html

by kaeso • 7 years ago

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Annatar5• 7 years ago

"See the commit for the corresponding extern declarations in bzlib_private.h. With those functions and the table ported to Rust, we can remove randtable.c. Yay!"

You just made bzip2 artificially depend on Rust. I have no Rust compiler on Solaris 10, which means that with this commit I can no longer compile your code. This goes for any other OS which doesn't have Rust.

steveklabnik4• 7 years ago

Introducing a Rust dependency isn’t accidental when it’s the point of the whole enterprise.

The author is also keeping the C version around. bzip2 didn’t even have version control before this. The C version will live on for all those who require it.

Annatar5• 7 years ago

Why purposely replace something which needs no replacing?

We are such a horrible, horrid industry. This is a perfect example why that is so.

Bzip2 in Rust: porting the randomization table

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