[linkregister]

Thanks, that's good to know about Rust's runtime.

I'm embarrassed to say that I just blindly trusted a couple of websites' claims that they ran benchmarks, without verifying they're even industry-standard. The articles were on Mashable and AppleInsider.

Mashable tested webpage load times, which only one dimension of many to optimize for. AppleInsider looked at speed, CPU usage, and memory consumption.

[steveklabnik]

No worries! Benchmarking is super hard, generally, and browsers are so huge, there's tons of things that you can measure. I'm not trying to say that you shouldn't trust any of them, just that that might be the source of discrepancy between what you've experienced and those numbers.

It also true that sometimes it's slow! There's always more to do.