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Re:Nim 1.6.2 by shirleyquirk on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:37AM (#29590396)
There are definitely slow bits of the Nim stdlib; json parsing for example. String-heavy code is easy to make slow in Nim, too.
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Re:Nim 1.6.2 by MrBuddyCasino on Saturday December 18, 2021 @08:45AM (#29604428)
Yes the benchmark against Crystal was heavy on strings (json & base64) and Crystal seems to do better there. Whats the reason, Nim using refcounting?
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