Nice work! I suspect the difference mainly comes down to the fact that Zig compiles everything into a single compilation unit. As you can see, this has tradeof

Nice work! I suspect the difference mainly comes down to the fact that Zig compiles everything into a single compilation unit. As you can see, this has tradeoffs. It produces better code (single-compilation-unit is what "LTO" approximates) but it requires more memory and more code needs to be rebuilt on changes.