Programming languages and performance

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 02:12:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/13/2015 4:28 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/32f4as/why_most_high_level_languages_are_slow/
>> Good article, discussion is a bit lame.
>
> One of the reasons I've been range-ifying Phobos is not only to 
> remove dependence on the GC, but often to eliminate allocations 
> entirely, by removing the need for temporaries to hold 
> intermediate results.
>

this is essentially fusion/deforestation, correct?