On: Announcing Rust 1.8

[optforfon]

Thanks for the links! This info is kinda hard to find if you're not in the loop.

But it looks like low level optimization is a low priority for the Rust project at the moment.

(prefetch is rejected b/c of insufficient testing and branch hinting might get hampered b/c Rust developers aren't trusted to use them correctly)

Maybe I'll revisit it in the future! Appreciate the help =)