> In reality, sped stuff up ... That's true for interpreted/dynamic languages, automated memory management/garbage collection, managed runtimes of different sor

> In reality, sped stuff up ... That's true for interpreted/dynamic languages, automated memory management/garbage collection, managed runtimes of different sorts, high-level descriptive languages like SQL, etc. None of that is true. Even SQL modeling declarative work in the form of queries requires significant tuning all the time. The rest of the list is egregious. > things suddenly got a smidgeon faster than static compilers. No, they did not.