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Re:Translating Quake 3 into Rust by vmchale on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:20PM (#21982045)
rustc and gcc are not the same compiler. Languages are hard to compare...
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Re:Translating Quake 3 into Rust by dodobirdlord on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:27PM (#21982132)
True, but gcc isn’t the only C compiler, and these days clang, which is an LLVM frontend like rustc, is pretty popular and mostly equivalent to gcc.
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Re:Translating Quake 3 into Rust by vmchale on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:10PM (#21985606)
In my experience, there have been times rustc underperformed relative to both gcc and clang.

In the past performance infelicities have been fixed, but there are some that remain.

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