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And, from most indications, incorrect. I think it's beat one C program on Alloth's benchmark game in processing time, but has been beat in the others.

It performs on par with C++, on the other hand, for what that's worth.




Remember that the benchmark game is a game, and it has rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13267312 is a recent thread about Rust and these rules on at least one benchmark.

Many of the others boil down to "explicit SIMD isn't in stable yet."


Interesting reading in this area in case anyone missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13268051




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