Ojective-C is a superset of C though. If you avoid the (dynamic dispatch) message passing, and if you construct/destruct objects manually, you're getting the s

Ojective-C is a superset of C though. If you avoid the (dynamic dispatch) message passing, and if you construct/destruct objects manually, you're getting the same performance as C. It's trivial to move the performance-critical bits into the pure-C subset of objective-C. You can't really do this with a managed (VM) language.