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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: 0.219s | 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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layer8 ◴[16 Mar 25 21:00 UTC] No.43382267[source]▶
If anything, this should be “zlib-rs is faster than zlib-ng”, but not “$library is faster than $programming_language”.
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1. brooke2k ◴[17 Mar 25 13:46 UTC] No.43388567[source]▶
the point of saying "faster than C" isn't to make it a competition, it's to demonstrate that Rust is capable of hitting performance goals that previously one needed to use C/C++ for.