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by losvedir 3725 days ago
> yet (almost) none of the dynamic languages go faster than "an order of magnitude slower than C with a huge memory penalty" even today, after a ton of effort has been poured into them

Interesting. What are the exceptions you have in mind to warrant the (almost) hypothetical? You mention LuaJIT. I've also heard that Q/KDB are quite fast. Anything else?