> Simple point: Adding optimizations doesn't speed C++ compilers up faster than having do those optimizations slows them down. Well that's an obvious point. >

> Simple point: Adding optimizations doesn't speed C++ compilers up faster than having do those optimizations slows them down. Well that's an obvious point. > Solution, stop using C++ for anything. We can't, realistically. I know rust is great in many aspects. I know lot of software in C++ can be written better even in an AOT'd GC language with equal or better performance, because of so many C++ performance pitfalls that appear at scale. But we can't throw away all the code already written. There is lot of talent pool for C++. And the supposedly better languages have non existent talent pool. (Go doesn't count, such a boilerplate language hampers any readability at scale).