This is a bit of a false equivalency -- there aren't many perf benefits in rewriting a C program in asm. The cost you pay for that rewrite is also much greater.

This is a bit of a false equivalency -- there aren't many perf benefits in rewriting a C program in asm. The cost you pay for that rewrite is also much greater. Yes, of course $HIGH_LEVEL_LANG is preferable for many many use cases. In this context, we're discussing "high speed trading systems", for which native implementations are going to be the favorite.