Re:Rust is Software's Salvation
by coldtea on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:38AM
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>Rust claims to be faster than C and safer than C at the same time. That's not possible.
It's actually entirely possible. For example it's how Fortran has been traditionally faster than C, by not allowing for aliasing (which is also an unsafe feature) it can give the compiler more room from optimization.
It's actually entirely possible. For example it's how Fortran has been traditionally faster than C, by not allowing for aliasing (which is also an unsafe feature) it can give the compiler more room from optimization.