Published onOctober 5, 2026Rust Under the Hood: Benchmarks from the Silicon Trenchesprogramming-languagesrustsystems-programmingcompilersperformancellvmconcurrencyAn empirical exploration of Rust at the silicon boundary: analyzing the rustc compilation pipeline (HIR, MIR, LLVM IR), memory layout, cache locality, SIMD auto-vectorization, and GPU buffer synchronization.