Rust 1.85 vs Go 1.24: File Compression Algorithm Benchmarks

File compression remains a critical workload for systems programming, data pipelines, and distributed storage. This benchmark compares the performance of Rust 1.85 and Go 1.24 across three widely used compression algorithms: gzip (DEFLATE), zstd, and bzip2, testing across diverse file types to isolate language and runtime impacts.

Test Methodology

All benchmarks were run on a dedicated bare-metal server with an AMD EPYC 7763 CPU (64 cores, 128 threads), 256GB DDR4 RAM, and a 2TB NVMe SSD to eliminate I/O bottlenecks.…