Nicholas Nethercote

I am a software engineer in Melbourne, Australia. I like Rust. I have worked on many kinds of systems software, including compilers, web browsers, profilers, checkers, benchmarking suites, and networking infrastructure.

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Jul 18, 2025
I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job
Jun 26, 2025
How much code does that proc macro generate?
May 22, 2025
How to speed up the Rust compiler in May 2025
Apr 8, 2025
A home free from fossil fuels
Mar 19, 2025
How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2025
Dec 19, 2024
Streamlined dataflow analysis code in rustc
Mar 6, 2024
How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2024
Mar 5, 2024
Code review in the Rust compiler
Aug 25, 2023
How to speed up the Rust compiler in August 2023
Aug 1, 2023
How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis update
Jul 25, 2023
How to speed up the Rust compiler: data analysis assistance requested!
Jul 11, 2023
Back-end parallelism in the Rust compiler
May 3, 2023
Valgrind 3.21 is out
Mar 24, 2023
How to speed up the Rust compiler in March 2023
Oct 27, 2022
How to speed up the Rust compiler in October 2022
Oct 5, 2022
Quirks of Rust's token representation
Jul 27, 2022
Twenty years of Valgrind
Jul 20, 2022
How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2022
Apr 12, 2022
How to speed up the Rust compiler in April 2022
Feb 25, 2022
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2022
Jan 5, 2022
Rust and Valgrind
Dec 8, 2021
A brutally effective hash function in Rust
Nov 12, 2021
The Rust compiler has gotten faster again
Nov 11, 2021
Jury Duty
Nov 10, 2021
Bio-poem