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Rust High Performance

You're reading from   Rust High Performance Learn to skyrocket the performance of your Rust applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399487
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iban Eguia Moraza Iban Eguia Moraza
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Understanding attributes

Rust allows us to conditionally compile certain parts of the code depending on what we call attributes. These attributes can be applied to either complete crates/modules or to specific functions, scopes, or even structure fields or enumeration variants. We saw some examples when we talked about Clippy, but these attributes allow for so much more that we will now look at them in depth.

Let's first see how an attribute works. An attribute that you want to apply to the whole current module/crate will be written like this: #![{attribute}]. Ones that apply to the scope/function/field/variant next to it will be written like this: #[{attribute}]. Note that the first has the ! symbol between the hash tag and the attribute.

You have probably seen attributes such as #[macro_use] or #[derive(Debug)] somewhere in some code. The first one will allow using...

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