[Nasrudith]

It would be a bit ironic for universities to compete on efficency and speed given those are two things companies optimize on. Not impossible of course, theory and encouragement to a bit more abstract could lead to providing that.

As for writing low level code, I thought that was something usually handled by the compiler or where even the advanced high performance for high price mostly tweaked the compiler after analyzing the output. Not my direct space so I speak with no authority.