It's interesting to compare the real difference here. In C, what you see at compile-time is what you get. As compared to an interpreted language where what you

It's interesting to compare the real difference here. In C, what you see at compile-time is what you get. As compared to an interpreted language where what you see at compile-time is probably going to be completely different from what happens at runtime. The difference is really where the optimizations occur. Runtime optimizations have certainly come a long way.