> Stop this evangelist wars, your language can be great due to some other features (ease of use, knowlidge needed to be proficient in it, forgiveness of mistakes,..), you dont need to compare it to c/c++. It just doesnt make any sense.

What if the purpose of the language is exactly to be faster than reasonably written C? Then a comparison makes sense.

Also, I have written a language that is "faster than C" in a certain naive sense, and it was not written in C. It does generate C, but not the kind of C sane humans like to write.

That does not mean those wc comparisons are indicative of real performance, though. They are just meant as provocative ways to get attention.