Towards Understanding the Runtime Performance of Rust
Yuchen Zhang, Yunhang Zhang, Georgios Portokalidis, Jun Xu
Abstract
Rust is a young systems programming language, but it has gained tremendous popularity thanks to its assurance of memory safety. However, the performance of Rust has been less systematically understood, although many people are claiming that Rust is comparable to C/C++ regarding efficiency.
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Rust (programming language)PopularityComputer scienceMemory managementProgramming languagePsychologySocial psychologyOverlayParallel Computing and Optimization TechniquesSoftware System Performance and ReliabilityDistributed systems and fault tolerance