The code is not open source unfortunately so I can’t provide evidence. But I have nothing to sell or promote (unlike the V language guys who has a clear motivat

The code is not open source unfortunately so I can’t provide evidence. But I have nothing to sell or promote (unlike the V language guys who has a clear motivation to inflate what they are selling). What the compiler does differently is that it does a whole program optimisation pass where it minimises the code manipulating the reference counters to an absolute minimum. This is something you can’t do in a C++ compiler. Which is one of the reason why the resulting machine code is faster. Also, I am using LLVM as the backend. So I am getting the same low-level optimisations that C++ compilers get. However the most important optimisations are done before lowering the code to LLVM. Function specialisation for example is huge (generating multiple versions of the same function with the arguments unlined and optimised away). I am doing quite a few high level optimisations like that before even lowering it to LLVM.