It's certainly true that there's room for semantic optimization, but my observation is that such optimization is largely around memory allocation. And AFAIK th

It's certainly true that there's room for semantic optimization, but my observation is that such optimization is largely around memory allocation. And AFAIK the only languages which tend to implement such memory optimizations are Java-like, and the only reason they bother is because of their up-front aggressive pessimization ... which the optimization can't make up for. Edit: my point is: yes C sucks, but everybody else is worse