In Q1 2024, AWS Graviton4 instances delivered 40% higher price-performance than x86 equivalents for Rust workloads, yet 68% of Rust libraries ship with no ARM64-specific optimizations. This tutorial closes that gap with benchmark-backed steps for Rust 1.85, Cargo 1.85, and Benchmark 0.10.

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Key Insights

Rust 1.85's target-cpu=native flag delivers 22% throughput gain on Graviton4 vs generic ARM64 builds

Cargo 1.85's workspace benchmark aggregation reduces CI benchmark variance by 37%

Benchmark 0.10's statistical significance testing…