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80x Faster Rust Code?

by choiway on 6/17/20, 4:34 PM with 2 comments

• by rvz on 6/17/20, 5:10 PM

  > I'm still suprised by how much faster the Rust code given that it's not taking advantage of concurrency.

  Dynamically-typed language with a GC, executing scripts via an interpreter will always be slower against a compiled, statically-typed language with no GC.

  Unfortunately, this comparison is sort of unfair and is frankly "optimization" by using another language.