Examples for Rust lecture

Set up and run

To run the examples follow the steps:

1. Install rustup environment (if not set up yet), see https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started for more details.
2. Clone or download the repository.
3. Enter the main directory:

cd rust-lecture-examples

1. Run a chosen example:

cargo run --example <example_name>

1. If an example contains unit tests, you can run them using:

cargo test --example <example_name> -- --nocapture

The nocapture option allows to print test output (written using println! macro) to the terminal.

1. If you want to run particular test specify its name:

cargo test --example <example_name> tests::<test_name> -- --nocapture

for example:

cargo test --example smart-pointers tests::refcell_interior_mutability -- --nocapture

Content

The complete list of examples you will find in examples directory.

Here's the (incomplete yet) description of the examples:

• smart-pointers.rs illustrates how to use types such as Box, Rc and RefCell;
• static-dispatch-benchamrk.rs and dynamic-dispatch-benchmark.rs provides a simple benchmark comparing static and dynamic dispatch; to see the proper result run them with:

  cargo run --example static-dispatch-benchmark.rs --release