Pretty much this and two of the three languages I use regularly have the ability to call into a language that does use them so if I ran into a case where I need

Pretty much this and two of the three languages I use regularly have the ability to call into a language that does use them so if I ran into a case where I needed more speed (and throwing hardware at it wasn't the cheapest approach which it often is) I could use something like C for that. I'd be rusty as hell though, I haven't written any C or assembly since ~1999.