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I'm curious how a language with no compiler is "faster than C" since the speed of C is nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the compiler implementations which have been so heavily worked over the years.

I can believe it - I've made my own language and compiler whose results are faster in the niche area it targets than any C compiler I've ever seen - I'm just curious how this assertion is backed up.

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nm, i see in the comments... so its a false claim then. nice. :/

Nowhere in the comments it is shown to be a false claim.

"Faster than C" is doable, but needs qualifiers, e.g:

CUDA in modern GPU hardware is faster than dektop C.

JITed Java was shown to be faster than C in several cases, because the JIT compiler could make adaptable optimizations based on the actual runtime environment.

And, any competent language that takes advantage of multiple cores easily is faster than most C equivalent programs (even most multi-threaded ones).

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