Rust is now faster than C

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=knucleotide

How can this be? Since C is as fast as assembly, does this mean Rust does some microcode optimilzation under the hood?

tfw PHP is faster than C

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=regexdna
1.0
Rust #2
1.93 219,284 699 4.83 79% 51% 51% 73%
1.2
PHP #4
2.23 106,284 832 5.09 62% 78% 49% 42%
1.3
C gcc
2.43 339,000 2579 5.68 46% 70% 51% 72%
1.3
TypeScript
2.59 535,964 433 2.58 2% 2% 0% 100%
1.4
Hack #4
2.61 219,700 832 5.89 67% 51% 66% 47%
1.4
Node.js #2
2.70 530,044 445 2.70 1% 1% 100% 1%