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Use more readable assembly for the struct example

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Also do the thing I said I did
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@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ to design allocators:
and [Reference counting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting)
(used in [Python](https://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html#reference-counts))
- Thread-local structures to prevent locking the allocator in [tcmalloc](https://jamesgolick.com/2013/5/19/how-tcmalloc-works.html)
- Arena structures used in [jemalloc](http://jemalloc.net/), which until recently
- Arena structures used in [jemalloc](http://jemalloc.net/), which
[until recently](https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/01/17/Rust-1.32.0.html#jemalloc-is-removed-by-default)
was the primary allocator for Rust programs!
But no matter how fast your allocator is, the principle remains: the
fastest allocator is the one you never use. As such, we're not going to go
in detail on how exactly the
fastest allocator is the one you never use. As such, we're not going to discuss how exactly the
[`push` and `pop` instructions work](http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs216/guides/x86.html),
and we'll focus instead on the conditions that enable the Rust compiler to use
but we'll focus instead on the conditions that enable the Rust compiler to use
the faster stack-based allocation for variables.
With that in mind, let's get into the details. How do we know when Rust will or will not use
@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ to hold their contents:
```rust
struct Point {
x: f64,
y: f64,
x: u64,
y: u64,
}
struct Line {
@ -116,13 +116,18 @@ struct Line {
}
pub fn make_line() {
let origin = Point { x: 0., y: 0. };
let point = Point { x: 1., y: 2. };
// `origin` is stored in the first 16 bytes of memory
// starting at location `rsp`
let origin = Point { x: 0, y: 0 };
// `point` makes up the next 16 bytes of memory
let point = Point { x: 1, y: 2 };
// When creating `ray`, we just move the content out of
// `origin` and `point` into the next 32 bytes of memory
let ray = Line { a: origin, b: point };
}
```
-- [Compiler Explorer](https://godbolt.org/z/WZRa1D)
-- [Compiler Explorer](https://godbolt.org/z/vri9BE)
Note that while some extra-fancy instructions are used for memory manipulation in the assembly,
the `sub rsp, 64` instruction indicates we're still working with the stack.