> A language can't be "faster than C". Why not? For instance, with current hardware, the good use of SIMD is critical. If you can't write vectorized code in (s

> A language can't be "faster than C". Why not? For instance, with current hardware, the good use of SIMD is critical. If you can't write vectorized code in (standard) C while you can do it in another Language, that would be a "faster" language. Same for other language features that enable faster code: Compile-time computations, better memory model with different pointer aliasing semantic, ...