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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: 0.206s | 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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qweqwe14 ◴[16 Mar 25 20:07 UTC] No.43381813[source]▶
The fact that it's faster than the C implementation that surely had more time and effort put into it doesn't look good for C here.
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1. jandrewrogers ◴[17 Mar 25 04:42 UTC] No.43385271[source]▶
C++ surpassed C performance decades ago. While C still has some lingering cachet from its history of being “fast”, most software engineers have not worked at a time when it was actually true. C has never been that amenable to scalable optimization, due mostly to very limited abstractions and compile-time codegen.