> higher level languages will always be significantly slower than C Looking at benchmarks, I can see this is factually incorrect. Also... show me where C allo

> higher level languages will always be significantly slower than C Looking at benchmarks, I can see this is factually incorrect. Also... show me where C allows you to see the pipeline directly. It's hard to optimize something you can't see. C is an abstraction layer. So is assembly. Both are relatively thick when you're talking about things like branch prediction and pipelining.