It's all about implementation. I got a ~100x speedup by going from bad Fortran to average Go (notice, both compiled). And a ~10x speedup by going from bad Go to

It's all about implementation. I got a ~100x speedup by going from bad Fortran to average Go (notice, both compiled). And a ~10x speedup by going from bad Go to excellent Python (compiled -> basically interpreted). So yes, compiled languages can give you performance benefit, but it's not guaranteed, you need to work for it.