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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 Richard Feldman asks how close pure functional programming can get to C in performance. It examines whether memory safety and immutability guarantees can match manual low-level control without heavy costs. Readers are debating benchmarks, garbage collection, and whether modern compilers can close the gap.

Why now: Developers are actively debating the trade-offs between safety guarantees in functional languages and the raw performance of C.

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