When rust ≠ performance. a lesson in developer experience
by suriya-ganesh on 2/3/2026, 7:55:44 PM
https://suriya.cc/tech/performance/oxen-add/
Comments
by: notorandit
Of course rust is not performance.<p>Rust is a programming language. Performance is a mix of programmer's ability, clever design and compiler optimizations.
2/3/2026, 9:51:25 PM
by: binhex
> but because we have this data (file name, etc.) passed back and forth between different layers in the code. we were doing lots of .clone() and db.open() at different layers to fetch the same data. The interesting part for me was that, this change reduced our<p>Reduced your what? The article seems to be cut off.
2/3/2026, 8:48:26 PM
by: pointlessone
This is extremely sparse on details.
2/3/2026, 9:11:58 PM
by: kykat
algorithm design and managing memory is something you have to think about regardless of what language you use, that should be obvious. Using rust doesn't guarantee correctness or performance, that should also be obvious.<p>Rust has features that make it easier to make correct and performant software, I think most programmers would agree?<p>Please stop this rust clickbait nonsense.
2/3/2026, 9:21:30 PM
by: LAC-Tech
I wonder to what extent the complexity of the rust language hurts performance. We all only have so much mental capacity, if much of it is spent on the various different intersections of rust's features, that reduces how much we can spend on making things fast.<p>(I like Rust btw)
2/3/2026, 9:23:02 PM