Академические исследования

Неполный перечень работ, которые оказали какое-то влияние на Rust.

Рекомендуется для вдохновения и лучшего понимания предпосылок Rust.

Система типов

• Region based memory management in Cyclone
• Safe manual memory management in Cyclone
• Typeclasses: making ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc
• Macros that work together
• Traits: composable units of behavior
• Alias burying - We tried something similar and abandoned it.
• External uniqueness is unique enough
• Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism
• Region Based Memory Management

Многозадачность

• Singularity: rethinking the software stack
• Language support for fast and reliable message passing in singularity OS
• Scheduling multithreaded computations by work stealing
• Thread scheduling for multiprogramming multiprocessors
• The data locality of work stealing
• Dynamic circular work stealing deque - The Chase/Lev deque
• Work-first and help-first scheduling policies for async-finish task parallelism - More general than fully-strict work stealing
• A Java fork/join calamity - critique of Java's fork/join library, particularly its application of work stealing to non-strict computation
• Scheduling techniques for concurrent systems
• Contention aware scheduling
• Balanced work stealing for time-sharing multicores
• Three layer cake for shared-memory programming
• Non-blocking steal-half work queues
• Reagents: expressing and composing fine-grained concurrency
• Algorithms for scalable synchronization of shared-memory multiprocessors

Другое

• Crash-only software
• Composing High-Performance Memory Allocators
• Reconsidering Custom Memory Allocation

Статьи о Rust

• GPU Programming in Rust: Implementing High Level Abstractions in a Systems Level Language. Early GPU work by Eric Holk.
• Parallel closures: a new twist on an old idea
  • not exactly about rust, but by nmatsakis
• Patina: A Formalization of the Rust Programming Language. Early formalization of a subset of the type system, by Eric Reed.
• Experience Report: Developing the Servo Web Browser Engine using Rust. By Lars Bergstrom.
• Implementing a Generic Radix Trie in Rust. Undergrad paper by Michael Sproul.
• Reenix: Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in Rust. Undergrad paper by Alex Light.
• Evaluation of performance and productivity metrics of potential programming languages in the HPC environment. Bachelor's thesis by Florian Wilkens. Compares C, Go and Rust.
• Nom, a byte oriented, streaming, zero copy, parser combinators library in Rust. By Geoffroy Couprie, research for VLC.
• Graph-Based Higher-Order Intermediate Representation. An experimental IR implemented in Impala, a Rust-like language.
• Code Refinement of Stencil Codes. Another paper using Impala.