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Its often worked out well to write the 10% most CPU bound parts of large Java or PHP applications in C. C defiantly has its place.

I wonder if this gentlemen has tried Go? If he is a big C fan, Go might be a great choice for the other 90%. Not only is Go a safer version of C with lots of great modern features, it integrates very well with C via cGo.

If memory usage and speed are your preeminent concerns, C is certainly a force to be reckoned with: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programs-...



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