jb55 on Nostr: There are many many reasons, i have engineered the rust and C code to be fast and ...
There are many many reasons, i have engineered the rust and C code to be fast and cache efficient. kotlin/jvm is a completely different runtime environment, and a naive implementation of a nostr client will be slow. Lots of careful engineering is the gist of it. I approached it like i would a video game with a very tight frame budget.
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