Yeah, this article about a rust "win" perfectly illustrates why I distrust all good news about it. Rust zlib is faster than zlib-ng, but the latter isn't a par

Yeah, this article about a rust "win" perfectly illustrates why I distrust all good news about it. Rust zlib is faster than zlib-ng, but the latter isn't a particularly fast C contender. Chrome ships a faster C zlib library which Rust could not beat. Rust beat C by using pre-optimized code paths and then C function pointers inside unsafe. Plus C SIMD inside unsafe. I'd summarize the article as: generous chunks of C embedded into unsafe blocks help Rust to be almost as fast as Chrome's C Zlib. Yay! Rust sure showed it's superiority here!!!!1!1111