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Zlib-rs is faster than C

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341 points dochtman | 1 comments | 16 Mar 25 19:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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johnisgood ◴[16 Mar 25 20:00 UTC] No.43381735[source]▶
"faster than C" almost always boils down to different designs, implementations, algorithms, etc.

Perhaps it is faster than already-existing implementations, sure, but not "faster than C", and it is odd to make such claims.

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1. oneshtein ◴[16 Mar 25 20:07 UTC] No.43381810[source]▶
... because by "C" we mean handwritten inline assembler.

Typical realworld C code uses \0 terminated strings and strlen() with O(len^2) complexity.