[jackmott42]

That is a fair thing to wonder about, but at the moment most of the design decisions Rust pushes you toward tend to be better for performance on modern hardware. For instance using an array based arena to store a graph, instead of the traditional allocation of a chunk of memory per node on the heap. Or just keeping more stuff on the stack.

[jnordwick]

But it takes a lookup hit and you need an arena per object type with its memory overheard. You'll get more cache misses.

A lot of the rust performance talking points just aren't true. Rust is slower than C and C++, not by much but you can't get a true believe to even recognized this. Rust has turned into a religion.

Rust also disallows some things that you can do fine on C++ if you know our architecture because thing won't work on some machine 20 years ago (eg, it has more strict alignment requirements than any machine a consumer can see).

Throughput may only be 5% or more slower, but latency issues for rust is a much bigger issue. The devs I've talked to don't even try to pretend they have a good latency profile.