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How close can functional programming get to C performance?
Original: How close can pure functional programming get to C?
A new essay by developer Richard Feldman asks how close pure functional programming languages can get to C in performance, examining where abstraction costs show up and what compilers can eliminate. It is drawing attention among systems and language-design enthusiasts, who are debating whether functional approaches can realistically compete with low-level languages for performance-critical work.
Why now: Developers are actively debating the performance gap between functional and low-level programming languages.
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