"image processing in C is just so absurdly faster than in any other language, even when you're just calling C libraries" Hm... https://news.ycombinator.com/it

"image processing in C is just so absurdly faster than in any other language, even when you're just calling C libraries" Hm... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390944 I'm not saying this is representative, but you did bring up image processing.