Huon Wilson

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I'm Huon Wilson , a mathematically and statistically inclined software engineer. I have been a long-term volunteer on Rust 's core team, a compiler engineer on the Swift team at Apple, and a senior software engineer at CSIRO's Data61, working on the StellarGraph graph machine learning library .

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SIMD in Rust

2015198 points32 commentscited by 5Software Engineering details

An overview of my work on improving SIMD in Rust.

Async hazard: MMAP is blocking IO

2024106 points115 comments Software Engineering details

Memory-mapping a file is convenient, but it's a hazard when used with async/await concurrent code: it means a "simple" memory index does blocking IO.