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How can a language whose compiler is written in C ever be faster than C?

StrugglingProgrammer · 2015
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Taking a look at Julia's webpage, you can see some benchmarks of several languages across several algorithms (timings shown below). How can a language with a compiler originally written in C, outperform C code? Figure: benchmark times relative to C (smaller is better, C performance = 1.0).
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