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Why Lean is faster than Rust
https://kim-em.github.io/blog/2026-7-24-why-lean-is-faster-than-rust/
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zahlman
Jul 27, 2026, 4:02 AM
> libdeflate unsurprisingly blows it out of the water (unsurprisingly because this is a very carefully tuned implementation using architecture-specific SIMD, that we can't touch in Lean).
... But Rust presumably could if someone did the work?
... But Rust presumably could if someone did the work?