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Rust High Performance

You're reading from   Rust High Performance Learn to skyrocket the performance of your Rust applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399487
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iban Eguia Moraza Iban Eguia Moraza
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Understanding the hardware

To understand what our software is doing, we should first understand how the compiled code is running in our system. We will, therefore, start with how the Central Processing Unit (CPU) works.

Understanding how the CPU works

The CPU is in charge of running the central logic of your application. Even if your application is a graphics application running most of its workload in the GPU, the CPU is still going to be governing all that process. There are many different CPUs, some faster than others for certain things, others that are more efficient and consume less power, sacrificing their computing power. In any case, Rust can compile for most CPUs, since it knows how they work.

But our job here is...

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