well, anything without a vm would be preferred for performance optimization on the hardware, much like anything without needing to be compiled gives one the mos

well, anything without a vm would be preferred for performance optimization on the hardware, much like anything without needing to be compiled gives one the most control. overall i think you are studying the right things. for me lately, vm's have been okay. the jit compiler is impressive, and llvm & pypy are interesting things too