> C's simplicity leads to fewer guarantees, this makes some optimizations impossible. I know that's the theory, but with few exceptions this doesn't seem to ha

> C's simplicity leads to fewer guarantees, this makes some optimizations impossible. I know that's the theory, but with few exceptions this doesn't seem to have panned out in reality anywhere and C is usually still the gold standard when it come to performance. How many more decades until we get these sufficiently smart compilers?