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Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by mahyarm on Sunday April 02, 2017 @05:26PM (#14019125)
Just because a language is compiled doesn't mean it will approach C++ speeds. The GC itself is a hard limit on perf. What I've seen in practice:

1x time: C

1.5x time: C++ (with smart pointers)

~2x time: Objective-C (almost everything is a heap smart pointer)

3x time: Java, Golang (optimized GC languages)

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