This thread is about efficiency of the coding process, not the execution process. Nobody would argue that an arbitrary high-level language performs as well as t

This thread is about efficiency of the coding process, not the execution process. Nobody would argue that an arbitrary high-level language performs as well as the same code written C or hand-tuned assembly. The point of this discussion is that writing C or hand-tuned assembly takes more lines of code (and therefore thought) than writing the same code in a higher-level language. So with this definition of efficiency, less lines of code does equal more efficient code.