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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Blazingly fast? Is it made in Rust or what?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Most of the speed is due to them compiling packages with the x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4 instruction set and LTO.

That means the CPU need to be little newer to take advantage of, too