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Zlib-rs is faster than C

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341 points dochtman | 5 comments | 16 Mar 25 19:35 UTC | HN request time: 1.274s | source
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kahlonel ◴[16 Mar 25 20:04 UTC] No.43381785[source]▶
You mean the implementation is faster than the one in C. Because nothing is “faster than C”.
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1. cozzyd ◴[17 Mar 25 01:52 UTC] No.43384451[source]▶
Nothing is faster than C in a vacuum, but depending on the context (medium?) that can happen.

In other words, someone should name a language Cerenkov

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2. oneshtein ◴[17 Mar 25 06:16 UTC] No.43385619[source]▶
Gravitation is slightly faster than c in vacuum.
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3. hyperbrainer ◴[17 Mar 25 06:36 UTC] No.43385713[source]▶
In GR, the speed of gravitational waves is _exactly equal_ to c.
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4. oneshtein ◴[17 Mar 25 15:27 UTC] No.43389558{3}[source]▶
In reality, speed of light is slightly lower than speed of gravitation, because gravitation slows down speed of light.
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5. hyperbrainer ◴[17 Mar 25 16:13 UTC] No.43390036{4}[source]▶
We were presumably talking about an ideal massless space [Minkowski] in which the speed of light in a vaccuum is considered -- that is what c is defined as.