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0 pointsshirleyquirk4y ago0 comments

There are definitely slow bits of the Nim stdlib; json parsing for example. String-heavy code is easy to make slow in Nim, too.

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Yes the benchmark against Crystal was heavy on strings (json & base64) and Crystal seems to do better there. Whats the reason, Nim using refcounting?

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0 pointsshirleyquirk4y ago0 comments

There are definitely slow bits of the Nim stdlib; json parsing for example. String-heavy code is easy to make slow in Nim, too.

Yes the benchmark against Crystal was heavy on strings (json & base64) and Crystal seems to do better there. Whats the reason, Nim using refcounting?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse