His 'VB' emits byte code for the .NET VM which is highly optimized. Also, VB.NET runs on the same VM. VB.NET has a lot of 'features' that are performance nightm

His 'VB' emits byte code for the .NET VM which is highly optimized. Also, VB.NET runs on the same VM. VB.NET has a lot of 'features' that are performance nightmares but it's not that slow if you know what to avoid. Oh, I didn't see that VB was run on mono, run that code on a windows machine and I bet it will beat the -O3 optimized C