> Presumably with inline assembly both languages can emit what is effectively the same machine code. Is the Rust compiler a better optimizing compiler than C co

> Presumably with inline assembly both languages can emit what is effectively the same machine code. Is the Rust compiler a better optimizing compiler than C compilers? rustc uses LLVM just as clang does, so to a first approximation they're the same. For any given LLVM IR you can mostly write equivalent Rust and C++ that causes the respective compiler to emit it (the switch fallthrough thing mentioned in the article is interesting though!) So if you're talking about what's possible (as opposed to what's idiomatic), the question of "which language is faster" isn't very interesting.