Feels like a mixed message, because my natural inclination would be to think of Rust as healthy and nutritious foods (it takes dedication and consistency to stick with it) and a better dependency algorithm as a fancy pie, since it's a on-off nice gain that feels good, but doesn't necessarily lead to additional benefits later.

Having done a fair amount of rust porting I imagine it’s a mix a both. Rust really is remarkably faster than Python at everything. But these results are indicative of a better algorithm as well.