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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: 0.291s | 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. jason-johnson ◴[17 Mar 25 20:43 UTC] No.43392542[source]▶
This has generally been the case, but a system language like Rust has access to optimisations that C simply won't have due to the compiler having so much more information (e.g. being able to skip run time array size checks because the compiler was able to prove out of bounds access cannot occur).