inovex / talk-static-vs-dynamic-dispatch-in-rust

Example code for a talk about the differences between static and dynamic dispatch in rust.

Talk - Static vs dynamic dispatch in rust

This repo contains the contents of my talk about static and dynamic dispatch in rust. These are two different implementation of [polymorphism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_(computer_science) in programming language.

Contents of the talk

The talk is done without slides, just with a terminal. It walks trough the following files and commands:

• INTRO.md
• main.rs
• ./main-rust
• main.cpp
• ./main-cpp
• make nm
• dis-cpp
• dis-rust
• OUTRO.md

Further reading

Some general notes:

• SO: How do you declare an interface in Rust?
• Medium: dyn , impl and Trait Objects — Rust
• users.rust-lang:Difference between returning dyn Box and impl Trait

More about trait objects:

• SO: What makes something a "trait object"?

License

The code is licensed under the MIT License.