Kernighan shared his thoughts on what he thinks of the world today — with its push away from C to more memory-safe programming languages, its hundreds of distributions of Linux — and with descendants of Unix powering nearly every cellphone.
In my limited experience the speed a rust complied executable runs is highly dependent on compiler options. By default (from what I remember), rust includes a ton of debug info in the resulting program. With the correct compiler flags you can strip all that out and programs run very close to c speeds.
Yeah, cargo build produces a debug build and cargo build --release is for actually distributing to users. (It doesn’t add the debug symbols, but also spends more time optimizing.)
In my limited experience the speed a rust complied executable runs is highly dependent on compiler options. By default (from what I remember), rust includes a ton of debug info in the resulting program. With the correct compiler flags you can strip all that out and programs run very close to c speeds.
Yeah,
cargo buildproduces a debug build andcargo build --releaseis for actually distributing to users. (It doesn’t add the debug symbols, but also spends more time optimizing.)