The AI ported his old PHP site to Rust, and caching made the new one keep up

Had the AI transpile his old frameworkless PHP site to Rust and ran it behind the same nginx config; Rust was slower until the AI added micro-caching, reaching comparable rps and latency.

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How it works

He has the AI transpile his old frameworkless PHP site to Rust
Runs it behind the same server config
Rust is slower until the AI adds micro-caching, reaching comparable speed

Why it’s worth knowing

The new language lost the first benchmark and won the second.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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