Re:I stopped everything and started writing C again
by igouy on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:08PM
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> And sure, it’s possible …
Because anecdote. We can only know when the thing is designed as an experiment.
(All credit to who-so-ever is working to write improved versions.)
Re:I stopped everything and started writing C again
by nindalf on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:30PM
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> Because anecdote
I don’t think anyone could have said something more rude or ignorant if they tried.
> designed as an experiment
Ha. As if you could design such an experiment. What, you’ll place two rats at a keyboard and ask them to implement grep? Bffr.
I’m pointing out the obvious - no one has actually written these mythical C programs that outperform Rust, to say nothing about security and reliability. You’ve deluded yourself into thinking that all it needs is “an experiment”. lol.
The Rust standard library has a state of the art sort implementation. There’s nothing faster, in any language - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/124032.
And sure, it’s possible that someone could write a C program that compares in speed to all the Rust programs I’ve mentioned. C is a Turing complete language after all. I’m only pointing out that it hasn’t happened in practice.
Also check the Android Binder code before (C https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/androi...) and after (Rust - https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/...). Same speed but the quality difference, it’s incomparable.