You keep making these sorts of comments on various threads which tells me that perhaps you are not clear on the idea of an "Abstract machine" which underpins al

You keep making these sorts of comments on various threads which tells me that perhaps you are not clear on the idea of an "Abstract machine" which underpins all high-level languages. See my comment here for some references - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930253 The gap between the "C Abstract Machine" and the actual Hardware underneath is smaller than most other high-level languages. This comment by user haberman puts it very nicely - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910015