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Actually slavak, inner loop C performance is all that's necessarily to make many of these tools viable.

If I can write my entire program in LANGUAGEX and just compile the inner loop a magic way and voila, the program runs at 85% C speed, we have a winner. We can use it in long-running programs which have a fierce compute time bounding.

This is an article explaining the magic way for a flavor of lisp.



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