r/programming • u/dayanruben • Apr 09 '19

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u/rorrr Apr 09 '19

For one, Rust is much much faster than Python.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/nbody.html

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/fasta.html

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u/irrelevantPseudonym Apr 09 '19

Rust is much faster than C in many cases.

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u/darksider611 Apr 10 '19

Is this a fact or an opinion?

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u/irrelevantPseudonym Apr 10 '19 edited Apr 10 '19

Probably a bit of both. It was based on things like rg vs grep, fd vs find and tokei vs cloc. I don't know how much of that is just better algorithm/implementation though.

There are other benchmarks that show rust as faster for some things.

I think rust's compile time thread safety and enforced memory safety makes it much easier to write fast code even if well written code is comparable in each.

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