Brett Harrison: preference

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…Yeah. In that case, I would say yes, because I think that you get a lot of the sort of static typing and compile time safety in Rust that you get from Ocamol. But the base level program that you can write in Rust is much, much faster than one you can write in Okamel because of the way Ocamel is designed, where there's this kind of automatic garbage collection, the worst thing you can do in high speed finance is do any memory allocation that results in garbage collection. And so you have to write very, very careful o camel that almost ends up looking like C in order to end up staying in functional programming land, but not actually creating tons of memory on the heap or the stack that ends up getting collected later. I guess you've been playing around with the Rust a lot recently, right?…

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