This is correct, and part of "the design of Rust make it slow". The use of LLVM is part of the design, and how use it is too. Is like the people on the C-like

This is correct, and part of "the design of Rust make it slow". The use of LLVM is part of the design, and how use it is too. Is like the people on the C-like languages (with the exception of Go) can't resits the temptation of make languages slow to use (yet, spend absurd amount of time on produce good binaries). Is not that I not grateful of how good Rust/LLVM compiled binaries perform, in fact, is one of the big reasons I use Rust! but is kind of weird(?)/funny(?) that the languages itself are so slow. I think is cultural. People on that side of the fence are so used to use sub-optimal tooling that don't mind too much to use another tool on the same feels. And if it provide "10%" increase on performance, get so happy, because is against the old, not agains the best.