Yes
I was able to take down the performance gap on Rust vs C (without Assembly) from 10x to 1.5x through detailed profiling and iterative improvements with Claude
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performance gap on Rust vs C (without Assembly) from 10x to 1.5x
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Helped: Detailed profiling and iterative improvements with Claude.
… As for optimization, that seems to be more of a question of effort than whether it’s possible. I was able to take down the performance gap on Rust vs C (without Assembly) from 10x to 1.5x through detailed profiling and iterative improvements with Claude. It also looks like the Anthropic C compiler was built from scratch. …