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| author | bors <bors@rust-lang.org> | 2014-08-02 02:16:02 +0000 |
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| committer | bors <bors@rust-lang.org> | 2014-08-02 02:16:02 +0000 |
| commit | 06727d4720d6a2818ba6701ae7151c4c8d7ceb9f (patch) | |
| tree | 2a85c3db89264c4ee64f689a190f7fa6918aa5c4 | |
| parent | d7cfc34a222c0280670690be0d618b67014cc28d (diff) | |
| parent | d4c3500ec6dace9a88f3e56c3495b34db6aa65c5 (diff) | |
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auto merge of #16128 : steveklabnik/rust/speed_faq, r=brson
Fixes #11174. I'm open to revising this text, but I figured it gets across the basics.
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diff --git a/src/doc/complement-lang-faq.md b/src/doc/complement-lang-faq.md index c5ddd180ee8..447e6b62cf7 100644 --- a/src/doc/complement-lang-faq.md +++ b/src/doc/complement-lang-faq.md @@ -162,4 +162,15 @@ debugging linking in the compiler you might set `RUST_LOG=rustc::metadata::creader,rustc::util::filesearch,rustc::back::rpath` For a full description see [the logging crate][1]. +## How fast is Rust? + +As always, this question is difficult to answer. There's still a lot of work to +do on speed, and depending on what you're benchmarking, Rust has variable +performance. + +That said, it is an explicit goal of Rust to be as fast as C++ for most things. +Language decisions are made with performance in mind, and we want Rust to be as +fast as possible. Given that Rust is built on top of LLVM, any performance +improvements in it also help us be faster. + [1]:log/index.html |