Raw assembly beats Rust at runtime? Tech Twitter performance debate
mgill25 · x · 2026-09-29
Tech Twitter drama: someone claimed hand-written assembly actually ran faster than Rust code at runtime, sparking a debate about whether developers are losing sight of how compilers actually work — and what that says about modern performance engineering.
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