Assembly isn't a good example, there are plenty of high level languages which produce excellent compiled output. But you have to use those, not any fancy new la

Assembly isn't a good example, there are plenty of high level languages which produce excellent compiled output. But you have to use those, not any fancy new language or framework. But your point is correct in that in many projects there isn't enough budget to make the product faster. Which is a project management decisions, not that the speed issues are unfixable.