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Re:Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go by bitbiter on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @09:15PM (#8791246)
Unfortunately the only C++ comparison is with g++, which makes me wonder how much we're actually benchmarking the llvm backend versus the gcc backend.

Perhaps even more interesting is how gcc C consistently outperforms g++ C++ (and Rust, for that matter).

Re:Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go by jerf on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @09:49PM (#8791337)
Yeah, usual benchmarks caveat, take with grain of salt. Still it's an interesting result. Many languages aren't even within spitting distance of C++, after all. And that's actually really good performance for a 1.0 of something like Rust; usually at this phase even a language putatively tuned for performance is still hanging around at 1/2 - 1/4 the speed of C, at least based on what I see. Rust is doing something right.