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by steveklabnik 2401 days ago
> Facts: On average rust is 10% slower on the banchmarkgame

That does not show it's 10% slower on average; it shows that C++ is 0.9917938291x as fast as Rust. They both have some where they win by 30%, most are closer, Rust is just faster on average.

> But they use llvm instead of gcc for c++,

C++ g++ g++ (Ubuntu 9.2.1-9ubuntu2) 9.2.1 20191008

?

> gcc is in average 20% faster than clang.

Extremely citation needed.

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> faster on average

What kind-of time measurements? What kind-of average?

This chart shows some time measurements:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

:and the geometric mean is faster for the C++ programs, but the median seems faster for the rust programs.

Statistical artifacts?

> What kind-of time measurements? What kind-of average?

I interpreted the parent to mean a simple average, so I did exactly that: calculated the percentage for each, and averaged them. In the colloquial term, "mean".

typo ? "the colloquial term" is "average", the specific term is "mean".
Geometric mean is the implicit default measurement for benchmarking