> Well, let's back up a minute for the folks missing context. Recently there have been a spate of blog posts of folks claiming that their pet language is "faste

> Well, let's back up a minute for the folks missing context. Recently there have been a spate of blog posts of folks claiming that their pet language is "faster than C" by implementing a feature-incomplete version of the wc utility and running a single benchmark to demonstrate superiority. I believe they are well aware of the limitations that have been shown in these recent benchmarks, and that it doesn't in fact demonstrate superiority in any way.