Is there anything faster than C++?

Fortran is faster and almost always better than C++ for purely numerical code. There are many reasons why Fortran is faster. It is the oldest compiled language (a lot of knowledge in optimizing compilers). … Many high performance libraries are still coded in Fortran, with a long (> 30 years) history.

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Why is C++ the fastest?

Reason 1: Tight Data Structures. First, C++ is intrinsically stingy with memory (unlike Java objects, a C++ struct has no memory overhead if there are no virtual functions [modulo word alignment issues]). Smaller things run faster due to caching, and are also more scalable. Of course, this is true of C, too.1 Tem 2011

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