C is actually quite impressive (or maybe gcc?) in this regard. A few years ago I dug up a 15 yr old C implementation of some image based search techniques by Da

C is actually quite impressive (or maybe gcc?) in this regard. A few years ago I dug up a 15 yr old C implementation of some image based search techniques by Daniel Huttenlocher, I was able to compile and run it with minimal effort: http://pugoob.blogspot.com/2008/01/pugoob-image-search-tool.html http://pugoob.blogspot.com/2008/01/pugoob-image-search-tool....