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I don't think anyone on the Rust side is seriously saying that Rust is faster than C and is pointing to the shootout leaderboard as evidence. This particular e

I don't think anyone on the Rust side is seriously saying that Rust is faster than C and is pointing to the shootout leaderboard as evidence. This particular example was a bit of a pain point for Rust, because (IIRC) the rules were such that Rust needed to use its default hash function in its hash table, but the C implementation could optimize for the data that the example uses.

dozzie 10y ago
> I don't think anyone on the Rust side is seriously saying that Rust is faster than C and is pointing to the shootout leaderboard as evidence. It's not an argument to be used against Rust; people who understand programming know this already. It's an argument to be used against Rust's fanboys, who are especially numerous for this language.
igouy 10y ago
Since 2007 the name's been the benchmarks game. Since Sep 10 2016 the Rust k-nucleotide #2 program has been shown using FnvHasher instead of the default hash function. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?test=knucleotide&lang=rust&id=2 http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...