Comment by pizlonator

I saw so many red flags:

- How is Rust only one order of magnitude faster than Python?

- How is Python that much faster than Node.js?

So I looked at the benchmark repo.

These benchmarks mean nothing folks!

Each of these benchmarks is just a SHA256 hash. This is NOT a valid way to compare CPUs, except if the only thing you will ever do with the CPU is to execute SHA256 hashes.

Hash functions are not representative of the performance of:

- Compression or decompression (of text, video, or anything really)

- Parsing

- Business logic (which is often dominated by pointer chasing)

So, you can safely ignore the claims of this post. They mean nothing.