Honestly if you're in the situation where it comes down to individual CPU clock cycles I can't imagine C# (or similar Java, Go, etc.) being useful at that point. Too much going on that's not in the view of the developer.
Some of the highest throughput systems on earth are written in either Java or C#.
Check out the LMAX disruptor sometime. Throughput rates measured in hundreds of millions of serialized events per second are feasible in these languages if you are clever with how you do things.
Check out the LMAX disruptor sometime. Throughput rates measured in hundreds of millions of serialized events per second are feasible in these languages if you are clever with how you do things.