Got it, I'll have to dig through the language benchmark game to see if it reflects the best C++ tricks. From what I've seen previously, the biggest perf differ

Got it, I'll have to dig through the language benchmark game to see if it reflects the best C++ tricks. From what I've seen previously, the biggest perf difference is in native memory management along with easy access to machine specific instructions. Having recently worked on a large C/C++ code base which had a heavy focus on performance observation, I found myself wondering if tricks like dynamic Code Generation to avoid method overhead and unnecessary branch checks actually had a significant benefit on performance relative to the developer economy impact.