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by burntsushi 3371 days ago

> Second point: look at the Benchmark game, a fast Rust code example also typically has an "unsafe" code.

That's false. From[1], it looks like two submissions use `unsafe`. And one of those is for ffi to gmp.

[1] - http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/rust.html

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igouy 3370 days ago

3 spectral-norm, 1 rev-comp

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

2 pi-digits (ffi to gmp)

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

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burntsushi 3370 days ago

OK. I only looked at the programs linked directly from: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/rust.html

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dbaupp 3370 days ago

I think it's missing the point to count the programs that aren't the fastest, i.e. only one each of the spectral-norms and pi-digits are "interesting".

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igouy 3370 days ago

And apparently steveklabnik1 thinks it's missing the point to count other than "the latest version of each program".

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/62cx5d/addendu...

There are many ways to be selective with evidence.

As-a-matter-of-fact all the contributed Rust programs I listed use unsafe.

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