I haven't been "recognizing C's merits" either. In fact, the real reason behind this problem is that C is not type safe, so optimizations (such as the one in th

I haven't been "recognizing C's merits" either. In fact, the real reason behind this problem is that C is not type safe, so optimizations (such as the one in this very article!) that are perfectly fine to do in type-safe languages are not possible to do in C without aggressively "exploiting" undefined behavior.