Js people: Ok your language is actually fast Python people: Come defend your language Go people: Needs more optimizations C people: Don't worry. If you enable the optimizer, this thing goes BRRRRRRRRRRRR.

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> C people: Don't worry. If you enable the optimizer, this thing goes BRRRRRRRRRRRR. But you actively DISABLED the optimizer. So while any other language can use its dynamic optimization, the C one is now running unoptimized.

Good observation. I noted in the methodology section: > Clang with -O1 optimized away the loop and was way faster than everything else (see I did try it, it was just so fast it would have looked odd in this comparison.

If we break both of Usain Bolt's legs at the starting line, the other racers can have a chance!

If by Usain Bolt you mean C then yeah, pretty much!

Ruby: add an extra server and move on

Precisely.

I have never seen code in production compiled with -O0. For debugging purposes sure, but not for production.

Had to majorly handicap C to make it a fair fight.

the python community will never recover from this

So far, the python community is not very loud.