I don't see the age of language at all relevant to how many ops/s or whatever other measure of speed you want to use it has. It's either faster than what you c

I don't see the age of language at all relevant to how many ops/s or whatever other measure of speed you want to use it has. It's either faster than what you consider "very fast", or it is not; how long the language has been around is, IMO, a complete non-sequitur. That it can be made, possibly, much faster than it is I guess can probably weigh in here, but that's not what they were talking about.