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Which pretty much makes this whole thing pointless since a lot of unsafe code exists purely for performance reasons.

That's what I was thinking; isn't 1 millisecond kind of an eternity in terms of computer performance?

I'm sure there's still value in this project, but I'm not sure I'm versed enough in Rust to know what that is.

Far from all of it, seems like a big leap to write it off as pointless because of one subset.