It's quite fun to write a bf->c "compiler" and look at the assembly output that results from compiling that c. The result can be remarkably efficient; GCC will

It's quite fun to write a bf->c "compiler" and look at the assembly output that results from compiling that c. The result can be remarkably efficient; GCC will trivially reduce a double-loop of incrementation down to a single multiply instruction for example, it will optimize away pointer manipulation and just use registers, etc.