The Rust Performance Book
The Rust Performance Book by Nicholas Cameron et al.by Nicholas Cameron et al.
Shares rank 71 of 115 programming books by recommenders
Readers find it valuable and well organized, a great resource for improving the performance of Rust programs.
Readers find it valuable and well organized, a great resource for improving the performance of Rust programs.
3 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 3
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 3 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Gives a lot of value
“I got a ton of value from this book.”
Comment from 24 Nov 2025 in “The Rust Performance Book (2020)” Described as a great resource
“This is a great resource!”
Comment from 24 Nov 2025 in “The Rust Performance Book (2020)” Table of contents seems reasonable
“the table of contents on the left seems reasonable enough”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Performance of Rust Language [pdf]”
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The four most recommended other programming books, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Crafting Interpretersby Robert Nystrom | 60 | 4 | 94% | 10 | — | Approved |
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| The Pragmatic Programmerby Hunt and Thomas | 28 | 1 | 97% | 7 | — | Approved |
| How to Design Programsby Felleisen, Findler, Flatt and Krishnamurthi | 18 | 2 | 90% | 7 | — | Approved |
| The Rust Performance Bookby Nicholas Cameron et al.This page | 3 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 3 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the table of contents on the left seems reasonable enough”
“I got a ton of value from this book.”
“This is a great resource!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.