Eleventy is super fun. Thanks, @jgarber, for the suggestion! In just a couple of hours this morning (while also switching over our wifi network and setting up a laptop for a friend), I've got all my posts imported, tags working, slugs for all the old underscore posts so I don't need redirects, and a bunch of cleanup done.

Another weekend and I might be able to actually switch this thing!! #weekendHacking #personalProjects #blogging #hashtagOverload #eleventy #openSource

This Saturday I got rid of a lot of allocations in the GStreamer logging Rust bindings ✨​

That was a lot of fun 😁​

When using GStreamer 1.20 or newer, the only allocations that are left now are

• the formatted string if any formatting is necessary, i.e. if a string literal is logged no allocation is needed
• when the default GStreamer log output function is used, one allocation is needed for building the whole log line

Previously there were at least 4 additional heap allocations per log. When logging string literals this is now one heap allocation less than from C 🥳​

Additionally, thanks to an awful Rust hack, all logging is actually using the function name instead of the module name for giving context information.

This required a couple of changes in gtk-rs that then made the following gstreamer-rs MR possible: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-rs/-/merge_requests/1160

There are probably other places that could be improved in the same way, but this seemed like something performance critical.

#GStreamer #Rust #RustLang #WeekendHacking