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# Mikhail Panfilov

@mnwa · Joined September 2026

Senior Software Developer

### [Can safe Rust ever beat Google's C Brotli?](https://mnwa.hashnode.dev/can-safe-rust-ever-beat-google-s-c-brotli?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Brotli, SIMD, bounds checks, and what it takes to compete with Google's C implementation. At one point, mbrotli's greedy match finder had the right AVX2 token and no native vector compares. The genera

22 min read · [mnwa.hashnode.dev](https://mnwa.hashnode.dev/can-safe-rust-ever-beat-google-s-c-brotli?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Sep 29](https://hashnode.com/posts/can-safe-rust-ever-beat-google-s-c-brotli/6abc131cc9f68fbd87eaa0ea)