"It's interesting that a lot of performance-critical code tends to be written in C++, which sometimes pretends not to be that low level. The reason is because t

"It's interesting that a lot of performance-critical code tends to be written in C++, which sometimes pretends not to be that low level. The reason is because the actual performance critical code is really running CPU-specific assembly, so C++ just holds the high level intent of the model and the optimization happens on the primitives that the processor actually uses."