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Engineering · August 2026

I benchmarked my language against Rust and Zig, and deleted my best number

I set out to prove my language beats Rust and Zig. The first thing I found was my own benchmark measuring the order I ran things in — turning a claimed 20-25% win into a tie. Here is what machin actually wins, what it loses, and the 45ms speedup I wrote and then threw away.

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