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Simply put cpp gives you ultimate control. If you want to be absolutely economical with the CPU/memory, you need to do things likely preallocate memory and making sure you don't get cache misses and branch mispredicts. For most software, the hardware has already run away to the point where you can just sort of tell the machine roughly what to do and it will do it for you in a way that doesn't affect your task, so you don't have to fiddle with minutiae like where exactly to place a thing in memory.