Update: This article was initially published on November 24th. All the takeaways from the original article still hold, but it turns out it's possible to make Rust even faster on Arm! After publishing this benchmark, Khawaja Shams suggested enabling assembly-optimized SHA-256 hashing in the Rust workload. Enabling theasm feature on the sha2 crate resulted in a 4-5x performance improvement for Rust

