| Autor: |
Anderson, Brian, Bergstrom, Lars, Herman, David, Matthews, Josh, McAllister, Keegan, Goregaokar, Manish, Moffitt, Jack, Sapin, Simon |
| Rok vydání: |
2015 |
| Předmět: |
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| Druh dokumentu: |
Working Paper |
| Popis: |
All modern web browsers - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari - have a core rendering engine written in C++. This language choice was made because it affords the systems programmer complete control of the underlying hardware features and memory in use, and it provides a transparent compilation model. Servo is a project started at Mozilla Research to build a new web browser engine that preserves the capabilities of these other browser engines but also both takes advantage of the recent trends in parallel hardware and is more memory-safe. We use a new language, Rust, that provides us a similar level of control of the underlying system to C++ but which builds on many concepts familiar to the functional programming community, forming a novelty - a useful, safe systems programming language. In this paper, we show how a language with an affine type system, regions, and many syntactic features familiar to functional language programmers can be successfully used to build state-of-the-art systems software. We also outline several pitfalls encountered along the way and describe some potential areas for future research. |
| Databáze: |
arXiv |
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