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Add method to obtain useful system hardware information #2181
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I have copy-pasted snippets from stackoverflow before and put a link to the source in the comments.
Nominating for milestone.
From reading the milestone descriptions, I suspect it is a match for Maturity Milestone 5: production ready. (One might be more aggressive and try to stuff it in e.g. "feature complete", but since a client should be able to express this themselves in native code as needed, I think it can wait for 5.)
just a bug, removing milestone/nomination.
I also think it would be useful to have a cacheline-aligned attribute for variables and for struct fields. Possibly even production-ready-worthy. Not sure if there's a separate issue for that; couldn't find one with a cursory search.
Triage: no progress.
I'm willing to take a look at implementing a libsys module to provide hardware information incl. cache (and ideally other information) if this enhancement would still be appreciated?
We're making the standard library smaller and smaller these days. Unless there's a particular reason why this would have to be in the language itself, this should be a Cargo package now.
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on Jun 4, 2024
For implementing a new hash table, I'd like to know the size of cache lines. In general, we probably want a way to provide technical information like that in std (or perhaps even in core). For now, I'm just intending to add a sys info module that will have CACHE_LINE_SIZE and CACHE_LINE_BITS constants. I found some code for this on the internet and would like to know if it is ok LICENSE-wise to put "do-what-you-want-with-it-licensed C bits" like that into rust:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/794632/programmatically-get-the-cache-line-size