ISSUE #003
DRAFTING
Rust • Compilers • Systems
The Memory Leak
Where ownership rules are religion and the borrow checker is judge, jury and segfault.
WHAT’S BREWING
- How Rust's ownership semantics map almost perfectly onto agent-runtime memory.
- Why GC pauses are existential for an inference kernel, and the real-time argument for a borrow-checked agent runtime.
- A field tour of the half-dozen Rust LLM-runtime stacks (vLLM-rs, llama.rs, Mistral.rs, candle, burn, tch-rs).
- Compiler-as-agent: how MLIR + Rust traits could give us a kernel that compiles its own optimizations on the fly.
- Hardware co-design: AMD's MI400 ISA, Apple's Neural Engine reversed, Cerebras's wafer-scale memory model.