Have a look at cproc/qbe, 70% of gcc -O3 speed (at the time I did CPU intensive benchmarks), for hardly a few % of gcc code. And it is not even using that grote

Have a look at cproc/qbe, 70% of gcc -O3 speed (at the time I did CPU intensive benchmarks), for hardly a few % of gcc code. And it is not even using that grotesquely and absurdely complex c++ syntax.