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Yeah. I guess Rust's secret sauce is just handling the long tail of much harder cases


Probably yeah. One thing is that it helps to have a statically typed language to do these optimisations, since you can used type-based analysis for them. So dynamically typed languages like Lisp or Python are going to have a harder time doing them.




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