It's just the spin of it that threw me off. You're right: "why is a C implementation so much faster than a widely used Rust implementation" is a valid and inter

It's just the spin of it that threw me off. You're right: "why is a C implementation so much faster than a widely used Rust implementation" is a valid and interesting question. But phrasing it as "why is a Python function faster than a Rust function", when it's clearly not the comparison at all, distracts from the real question.