17-19 October 2023
Palexco
Europe/Madrid timezone

Writing compilers in Rust

17 Oct 2023, 11:25
45m
Palexco

Palexco

Muelle de Trasatlánticos, s/n, 15003 A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
Talk (full slot) Main Track

Speaker

Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)

Description

The new back-end compiler for NVIDIA hardware, jokingly named NAK, has been almost entirely written in Rust. In this talk, Faith will do a bit of a postmortem on her Rust compiler experience and talk about challenges and advantages of Rust for Mesa in general and compilers in particular.

GSoC, EVoC or Outreachy No
In-person or virtual presentation In-person
Code of Conduct Yes

Primary author

Faith Ekstrand (Collabora)

Presentation Materials

2025 Host
Technische Universität Wien
2025 Gold Sponsors
AMD
Arm
Collabora
Microsoft
Snap AR
2025 Silver Sponsors
CodeWeavers
FEX-Emu
Igalia
Qualcomm
The Linux Foundation
2025 Bronze Sponsors
Khronos Group
Libre Computer