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kibwen • today at 9:15 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

There's no paradox here. You can use any benchmark you like to prove that Rust is a fast language. The work that the compiler does is irrespective of the language that rustc is written in.


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amelius • today at 9:20 PM

Yes, the benchmark is compiler compiling itself. From scratch and incrementally.