Comment by duke_of_vandals
3 hours ago
If you didn’t need to look at the code at all, why not write it in asm instead of Rust, and make it even faster?
3 hours ago
If you didn’t need to look at the code at all, why not write it in asm instead of Rust, and make it even faster?
Ha I did consider that! But 70x is plenty fast enough (we still have to query an actual database!) and the parser runs in a shared process on untrusted input, so it wasn't worth the security risk