>>68A ten-fold performance improvement is a fucking ludicrous scenario unless you are writing number crunching code and in that case you can just write the crucial sections in C or asm (or more likely, use a library written in it). On that note, why do cetards always count inline assembly as a part of their language? It is completely non-standard and discouraged in normal code. You don't see Haskal folks bragging about performance gains from the FFI either.