What Alice Ryhl thinks about software performance

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Software engineer on Google's Android Rust team, a core maintainer of the Tokio async runtime and an adviser to the Rust language team.

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1. 20 May 2026

   Our readingGarbage collection is a problem for backends too, not only for embedded code: a collection that lands on an incoming request is a latency spike.

   Their wordsEven for back end, it can be a problem because if you have a request incoming right when it checks all of your objects like you have some sort of latency spike where you it takes much longer to to reply. So that's one of the reasons it can be helpful in in back end as well.

   ↗Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhlyoutube.com 9th of 23 in this recording