> … it's performance is closer to Java … You seem to be quoting yourself out-of-context ;-) In full, you wrote — "… but it's performance is closer to Java, wh

> … it's performance is closer to Java … You seem to be quoting yourself out-of-context ;-) In full, you wrote — "… but it's performance is closer to Java, which is a few orders of magnitude slower than C++" — and that is not shown by those measurements.