Shock Result?: Rust faster than Python in one test of file parsing

I don’t think I’d surprise many people if I told them a Rust program was often faster than a Python program but today I wrote a small “script” that scanned a large log file for a regular expression and was surprised to find the Rust version ran >400x f… Read more

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