[the_new_guy_29]

"decreased the execution time by a factor of 3"

So article is about a flew in previous versions of Rust not supporting 128-bit numbers on x86_64. But title makes it sound like "switching to Rust was the breakthrough". Or am i paranoid about it..

[codetrotter]

> But title makes it sound like "switching to Rust was the breakthrough". Or am i paranoid about it..

Since titles keep changing on HN (for good reasons), I can’t be sure you saw the same title that I did, but if you did I disagree.

The current title is “How Rust 1.26 more than tripled the speed of my code”.

Because that title specifies a specific version number, I expected the blog post to be about exactly the kind of thing it was; some new feature or improvement in that version of Rust which would make their software run faster compared to the previous version of Rust they were using.

[infogulch]

They probably wouldn't have mentioned the specific version if they were talking about switching languages instead of switching compiler versions.

[viraptor]

The original title is the more precise "How a Rust upgrade more than tripled the speed of my code". Also I think mentioning the version made it clear that it's about a specific version, not about rust in general.

[magduf]

Maybe they should change it to: "How an upgrade to Rust 1.26 more than tripled the speed of my code"

[rkagerer]

I'd say its more about how LLVM outperformed their previously handwritten assembly (the latter was impeded by crud from the asm! macro).

[Ygg2]

That would have done nothing, if Rust didn't stabilize u128/i128.