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>Better performance than C That's a bold, yet generalized statement.

• falcolas 10y ago
  And, from most indications, incorrect. I think it's beat one C program on Alloth's benchmark game in processing time, but has been beat in the others. It performs on par with C++, on the other hand, for what that's worth.
  • colemickens 10y ago
    Interesting reading in this area in case anyone missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13268051 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13268051
  • steveklabnik 10y ago
    Remember that the benchmark game is a game, and it has rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13267312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13267312 is a recent thread about Rust and these rules on at least one benchmark. Many of the others boil down to "explicit SIMD isn't in stable yet."
• quotemstr 10y ago
  The Java people made the same bold claims back in the day.