Hash digest performance (Rust vs. Python)

What OS, CPU and rustc version is this on? Are you running in release mode?

On my system (Ryzen 5900X, Arch Linux with export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libjemalloc.so and rustc 1.69.0-nightly) Rust is slightly faster:

➜  hash_perf git:(main) ✗ hyperfine ./hash.py          
Benchmark 1: ./hash.py
  Time (mean ± σ):     138.6 ms ±   2.7 ms    [User: 110.9 ms, System: 27.5 ms]
  Range (min … max):   133.7 ms … 142.2 ms    21 runs
 
➜  hash_perf git:(main) ✗ cargo build --release; hyperfine ./target/release/hash_perf
    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.00s
Benchmark 1: ./target/release/hash_perf
  Time (mean ± σ):     125.5 ms ±   1.5 ms    [User: 98.7 ms, System: 26.5 ms]
  Range (min … max):   121.9 ms … 128.4 ms    23 runs