C# is a pretty good example of where the tradeoff between speed and safety can be a good choice. I wrote a non-trivial stock trading app in C#, and for sake of

C# is a pretty good example of where the tradeoff between speed and safety can be a good choice. I wrote a non-trivial stock trading app in C#, and for sake of this conversation I added some loop counting. it analyses about 1.5million ticks per-second (against trade rules). This is a single thread running on a 3.2ghz core i5, no I/O.