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Network Communication And Serialization In Rust

Computers surround us. While some devices are useful on their own, many are unable to function unless networked to other, remote systems. Accordingly, network communication is an obvious use case where [Rust][9]'s value proposition can be demonstrated (XXX this isn't making the case that Rust is good at networking - what is the value proposition re: networking + Rust. It may be better to emphasize that Rust has particular strengths for networking applications, or not try to make this point at all). While my [previous post][14] in this series focused on file-IO (XXX: 'file I/O'), this post will explore the standard library's API for communication over TCP/IP, providing code for a primitive server that responds to requests from a web browser, as a nod to utility and expedience (XXX I don't understand the 'utility and expedience' point). As a further complement to IO (XXX: 'I/O'), Rust's serialization API will be introduced. These two things together help prog

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Regression report stable-2016-07-05 vs. nightly-2016-07-15

From: stable-2016-07-05
To: nightly-2016-07-15

Coverage

5429 crates tested: 2727 working / 1432 broken / 294 regressed / 240 fixed / 736 unknown.

Regressions

Regression report stable-2016-07-05 vs. beta-2016-07-06

From: stable-2016-07-05
To: beta-2016-07-06

Coverage

5623 crates tested: 3143 working / 1718 broken / 7 regressed / 9 fixed / 746 unknown.

	fn reserve_empty(nn: uint) -> str unsafe {
	// start with a null-terminated 0-length string
	let ss = "";

	// make a vector
	let vv: [u8] = unsafe::reinterpret_cast(ss);
	unsafe::leak(ss);

	// expand it to size + \0
	vec::reserve(vv, nn+1u);

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