Beating C in 80 Lines of Rust

After reading Chris Penner's article titled, "Beating C With 80 Lines of Haskell", I just couldn't help myself and decided to replicate the experiment using Rust.

First, the results using wc(1):

$ time wc enwik9
 13147025 129394476 1000000000 enwik9

real	0m2.655s
user	0m2.440s
sys	0m0.199s

Next, using wc-rs:

$ time ./target/release/wc-rs enwik9
13147025 129394476 1000000000 enwik9

real	0m2.212s
user	0m2.086s
sys	0m0.121s

I'm only using stdlib, and using only a single thread. Not too shabby.

Test Files

I used enwik8 and enwik9 to test.