> Rust is still twice as slow as C which is still a fair bit slower than if a skilled assembly programmer had taken on the task. Really? Are there really peop

> Rust is still twice as slow as C which is still a fair bit slower than if a skilled assembly programmer had taken on the task. Really? Are there really people who write (a lot of) assembly in order to get code "a fair bit" faster than C? What on earth are they working on?