Most of the code I write is in a garbage collected language.
I'm often surprised how much extra performance I can get when I can control allocations. I saved ~10% runtime in difftastic by moving to a zero-allocation colour library (owo_colours)!
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I've released difftastic 0.70! In this release:
* Added Dockerfile and fish shell support
* Improved Dart, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Java, OCaml, PHP,
Protocol Buffers and TOML.
* A bunch of display and performance fixes.
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An AI benchmark website that tries to run comparable benchmarks regularly to discover when LLM performance is degrading:
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When writing long-lived programs (daemons etc) in Rust, I find myself asking *where* I should put data.
In a GC'd language it's just "I have a string" but Rust forces me to find somewhere to put it.
You do get a performance benefit for this work though.