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Re:My time with Rails is up by MegaDeKay on Sunday May 22, 2016 @03:58PM (#11750009)
The link to that article is below. printf in C tranlates to a few lines of assembly in preparation for a call to sprintf. That in turn will have a lot more instructions in assembler.

http://zverovich.net/2016/05/13/giving-up-on-julia.html

Re:My time with Rails is up by hackerboos on Sunday May 22, 2016 @07:08PM (#11750682)
Indeed and OP is mixing up language implementation and standard libs with a framework.