>> C stack management and function calling requires work that is not part of a CPU Well in C you tend not to manage the stack. As for function calls, what exac

>> C stack management and function calling requires work that is not part of a CPU Well in C you tend not to manage the stack. As for function calls, what exactly do you think a CPU spends its time doing? >> malloc and free do not map to anything at the hardware level, these are OS calls So memory is just some non-physical property of the OS? Erm... >> I think that people talk about C as an important language because it is difficult to write programs in. There is a learning curve, but it's hardly difficult. However I think I know the reason for your confusing statements above.