[anonymars]

Even way back when: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060731-15/?p=30...

> The fact that Rico Mariani was able to do a literal translation of the original C++ version into C# and blow the socks off it is a testament to the power and performance of managed code. It took me several days of painful optimization to catch up, including one optimization that introduced a bug, and then Rico simply had to do a little tweaking with one hand tied behind his back to regain the lead. Sure, I eventually won but look at the cost of that victory

[duncans]

Unrelated, but Microsoft should be ashamed that most of the links in that blog no longer work.

[tialaramex]

I was actually surprised much of the material still exists - though the links don't work. Microsoft performs so much needless self-vandalism and I know some things I care about are gone.

Which just reminded that yeah, all the links I'd made to Raymond Chen's "The poor man's way of identifying memory leaks" no longer work. The Rust implementation is less than four years old, but its link (which worked) now does not. -sigh-

Tempting to go reconstruct that performance improvement "fight" in Rust too. Maybe another day.