[lubesGordi]

Honestly its a little surprising the first optimization he found was something fairly obvious just by using perf. I thought they had discussed the zeroing buffers issue in the first post? The second optimization was definitely more involved/interesting but was still pointed at by perf. Don't underestimate that tool!

[Sesse__]

AFAICS, it wasn't “just perf”; it was doing a differential profile between the C and Rust versions, with manual matching up. (perf diff exists, but can't match across the differing symbol names, and few people seem to use it.)

[sounds]

He came from the aarch64 perspective on an Apple device. I often experience someone spotting an "obvious in hindsight" gap because they come from a different background.