[Manishearth]

Well, yeah, Rust hit stable in 2015. Its a new language, that's when those benchmarks were first written or fixed to work with the stable compiler.

Trust me, most of the C solutions there are very hand-optimized. Less than the rust ones in some cases.

While Rust may need that marketing, C folks have had years of time to play the benchmarks game. And there are many more C programmers than Rust programmers. I think enough effort is going into those C programs.

Like I said, in practice Rust code sometimes is faster than (otherwise it is as fast as) C code because it is easy to write the fast version using zero cost abstractions.

(the benchmarks game is a different realm of optimization, in day to day usage you do not spend that much effort eking out every last cycle; you write code that doesn't have major perf issues and use it)