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Re: [tor-bugs] #11331 [Tor]: rewrite tor in rust-lang
#11331: rewrite tor in rust-lang
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Reporter: cypherpunks | Owner:
Type: project | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor: very long term
Component: Tor | Version:
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Comment (by frewsxcv):
I'm really interested in getting the ball moving for this. I'm going to
look how the Mozilla devs integrated Rust into Firefox. Also, like nickm
said in the previous comment, this should be done module by module. nickm
gave me suggestions on IRC:
{{{
10:32 AM <nickm> frewsxcv: the workqueue.c code is a bit independent, is
inherently threaded, and might be a good test of one's rust skills.
10:32 AM <nickm> frewsxcv: di_ops.c might be an even deeper test of
whether-rust-can-even-do-that
10:32 AM <nickm> frewsxcv: rewriting as much as possible of routerparse.c
could have concrete benefits
10:33 AM <nickm> frewsxcv: oh, in that case, try tor-resolv.c
10:33 AM <nickm> it depends on nothing
10:33 AM <nickm> Yawning: i think a wholesale rewrite is a bad choice, but
that a piecemeal rewrite might be clever.
10:33 AM <nickm> frewsxcv: also, dircollate.c is mostly algorithmic
10:34 AM <nickm> Yawning: yeah but you already rewrote it in go
10:34 AM <nickm> as for things where rust is a good choice, though, our
inner loops are most important, and not very isolated :/
}}}
Also it looks like dhuseby has already written a config parser
https://github.com/dhuseby/torrc-rs
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