It's not inherently fast. It puts up few barriers that prevent the user from writing a fast program, but it's still on the user to write a program that is actua

It's not inherently fast. It puts up few barriers that prevent the user from writing a fast program, but it's still on the user to write a program that is actually fast. If your language has semantics that are difficult to translate into fast C, then your language isn't going to be fast just by going through C.