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Re:My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter by adrianratnapala on Thursday September 22, 2016 @06:20AM (#12555788)
Rust uses LLVM, a heavyweight backend with fearsomely thorough optimisation.

It might be that for non-optimised output, the parser becomes the bottleneck again. Or it might be that LLVM just imposes overhead even for the unoptimised case, that pays for itself in the optimised case.

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