> rav1d proclaims that Rust is (almost) as fast as C when all the performance engineering efforts went in the ASM bits, that were copied verbatim from dav1d.

This is key. Not to mention how advocates for ra1vd are gaming their benchmarks and obscuring how unsafe the actual code is. The bounty presenting it as "safe" on memorysafety.org is a laugh.

IMO, that dishonesty deserves some snark from VLC and ffmpeg.