Debunking "Faster than Rust": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov
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Debunking benchmark claims, relevant to performance analysis.
Summary
A blog post debunks Tov, a language marketed as 'faster than Rust' that transpiles TypeScript to C via Clang. The author argues the claim is logically impossible (C vs. C) and proves benchmarks for `bigint_fib`, `dispatch`, and `map_insert` were maliciously crafted to slow Rust down. Corrected benchmarks show Rust has equivalent or better performance.