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They're sorted by highest delta, which makes it look so significant in the first moment.

Also, though one of golangs target was to get close to c-like performance, they never intended to be the "performance-killer" since the focus is also strong simplicity and productiveness.

More info: https://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_does_Go_perform_badly_on_benc...

[timClicks]

Another angle where Rust is doing well is in peak RAM usage. Its memory usage is generally (although certainly not universally!) much lower in these examples.

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Yeah, no doubt! As already written somewhere above, the GC is not cheap.