Rust RwLock and Mutex Performance Oddities Recently I have been working on Rust datastructures once again. In the process I wanted to test how my work performed compared to a standard library RwLock and Mutex. On my home laptop the RwLock was 5 times faster, the Mutex 2 times faster than my work. So checking out my code on my workplace workstation and running my bench marks I noticed the Mutex was the same - 2 times faster. However, the RwLock was 4000 times slower. What's a RwLock and Mutex ...
