That takeaway is more or less uniformly true, though. It also often comes up as saying that $LANGUAGE is slower than C or C++. Your algorithms aren't naturally

That takeaway is more or less uniformly true, though. It also often comes up as saying that $LANGUAGE is slower than C or C++. Your algorithms aren't naturally faster just because you're writing in C++. You don't magically stop allocating and double-buffering all over the place just because you're writing C++. In fact, coming in from the likes of Java you're liable to underestimate just how much (relatively expensive) copying is going on if you're careless. What C and C++ give you (and Assembly gives you even more of) is control. If you can, and know how to, capitalise on that control, you _will_ get more performance. But those requirements are non-trivial.