C++ actually used to be pretty slow back in the day, but that's more the fault of compilers that didn't optimize properly. That was about 15 years ago. (In ot

C++ actually used to be pretty slow back in the day, but that's more the fault of compilers that didn't optimize properly. That was about 15 years ago. (In other words, this guy missed the "C++ is slow!" bandwagon by a decade and a half.)