<p><pre><code>  &gt; we know will be abused (performance! performance!)
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None of the programs (or at least most, I only checked the first 5) in which Rust is faster than C use unsafe directly. It&#x27;s in the libraries they use, but safe Rust is very performant.<p>We&#x27;ll have to agree to disagree about the rest. :)