[rroriz]

I think the point is that Bend in a much higher level than C++. But to be fair: I also may be missing the point!

[gslepak]

The point is that Bend parallelizes everything that can be parallelized without developers having to do that themselves.

[5-]

here is the same loop finishing in one second on my laptop, single-threaded, in a very high-level language, q:

  q)\t sum til floor 2 xexp 30
  1031