> only recently begun making headways for performance What gave you this impression? MIR landing? I'm not saying it is a wrong impression, but it doesn't matc

> only recently begun making headways for performance What gave you this impression? MIR landing? I'm not saying it is a wrong impression, but it doesn't match mine. My impression is that Rust is routinely very fast, often rivals C, and most of the recent headways were surrounding the performance of the compiler, not the resulting programs.