Lower than C?

[Walter Bright]

bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>> High level language features are usually good for productivity.
>> They can be good for optimization in that they give the compiler
>> flexibility in how to implement a particular goal.
> 
> I presume the "vector operations" (+, * among whole arrays) are in
> the group of "good for optimization" too :-)

Yes. Otherwise, they must be laboriously reconstructed from the low
level array operations, making for a very complex optimizer.