Actually pointers are a sore spot. Of course we have `restrict` in C (and not C++, for some strange reason) but it leaks elsewhere too, like qsort. Of course y

Actually pointers are a sore spot. Of course we have `restrict` in C (and not C++, for some strange reason) but it leaks elsewhere too, like qsort. Of course your main point still holds (you could write macros that implement your container without void* everywhere) but I feel those are the issues where a HLL is most likely to outperform a naïve C implementation (since it would take gyrations to most efficiently implement the same in C).