I similarly found that C was slightly faster than Rust in a microbenchmark called LPATHBench: https://gist.github.com/bjourne/4599a387d24c80906475b26b8ac9e5b7 h

I similarly found that C was slightly faster than Rust in a microbenchmark called LPATHBench: https://gist.github.com/bjourne/4599a387d24c80906475b26b8ac9e5b7 https://gist.github.com/bjourne/4599a387d24c80906475b26b8ac9... That was with clang which performed significantly better than gcc. clang appears to generate very good code tree traversals. But this was way back in 2016. Numbers from microbenchmarks that old are hardly relevant anymore.