I wonder what is gained by this port though, if the C++ codebase already employed modern approaches to memory management. It's entirely possible that the Rust version will perform worse too as compilers are less mature.

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maleldil 5 hours ago | parent [-]

"modern approaches to memory management" aren't enough for complete memory safety.

	▲	drnick1 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe, but it's certainly possible to write memory safe code in C++. It may be more or less difficult, but it isn't typically the ONLY objective of a project. C++ has other advantages too, such as seamless integration with C APIs and codebases, idiomatic OOP, and very mature compilers and libraries.