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He did mention "quick compile times" as a draw and macros can slow down compile times/that kind of performance, but sure run-time performance of compiled code should be unimpacted.

EDIT: FWIW, compile-times impact mostly just depends on what he wants to do. The macro evaluator not that slow a virtual machine. Simple substitution macros tend to run quite fast. But it's also easy (with loops!) to generate a large pile of Nim code that generates a ginormous pile of C code that the backend might have to chew on for quite a while.