Zlib-Rs Is Not Only Safer but Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations

Fascinating--I wonder to what extent the performance improvements are due to the better constraints Rust hands over to LLVM for optimization (specifically thinking `noalias` rules) vs aggressiv code optimization by the developers to be to the point where they beat the C zlib. The latter could be more difficult to achieve given how long the original zlib has been getting incrementally improved, though.

Really interesting, I&#x27;ve never used the Rust version, I can only assume I&#x27;ve used the C implementation indirectly dozens of times if not hundreds, but does anyone know how 1:1 the Rust implementation is?<p>The one area where C will always beat Rust (at least today) will probably always be portability, C compilers run everywhere, on everything, and to anything... Unless Rust has similar capabilities via LLVM?

Are they exporting their library with the C-ABI? It&#x27;s cool if it&#x27;s fast and would be nice if I could link to it from non-Rust code.