Is Rust fast?
Speed is not the reason why most people should use Rust, but Rust programs run fast. Is Rust fast enough?
This article is Part 4 in a 7-Part Series.
- Part 1 - Should I use Rust?
- Part 2 - Is Rust popular enough?
- Part 3 - Is Rust safe?
- Part 4 - This Article
- Part 5 - Is Rust difficult to learn?
- Part 6 - Trivial example of safety in Rust
- Part 7 - Getting started with Rust
According to Matsakis and Turon, in their forward to the Rust Book, the language naturally guides people towards faster code that uses less memory. And since it doesn’t have a garbage collector, the performance is also more predictable.
In this video we see testimony about this ease of producing efficient code, from Discord and others.
Since speed is not the most important feature of Rust, I kept this video shorter.
This article is Part 4 in a 7-Part Series.
- Part 1 - Should I use Rust?
- Part 2 - Is Rust popular enough?
- Part 3 - Is Rust safe?
- Part 4 - This Article
- Part 5 - Is Rust difficult to learn?
- Part 6 - Trivial example of safety in Rust
- Part 7 - Getting started with Rust