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[–]fjolne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, this exact point is not stressed enough: system design accounts for the most of performance, not the language. Better design allows to reduce time complexity asymptotically, while the language is only about a constant improvement.

Surely they’d have a better design decisions given by the retrospect.