[hermitcrab]

Wow. It reminds me of those guys who run a marathon carrying a fridge. Impressive, but ...

[gargalatas]

Yeah but imagine that if it was writte in anything else it would never had made it to the shelves with the processor power back then.

[hermitcrab]

Programs spend the vast amount of their cycles in a small sub-set of the code. There is generally very little to be gained by optimizing code that isn't in the small subset.