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Google paid quite a lot internally to develop Go, and despite its many flaws it at least has mechanical sympathy for the computers it runs on.

I've read GHC assembly and it seems to be intentionally trying to run poorly - eg it calls everything through unpredictable function pointers. No, this isn't CPUs' fault, as GHC people do try to be optimal, they are just failing. jhc produced good code but isn't maintained afaik.