Most of these "insanely fast" projects kind of feel like people rediscovering compiled languages after the scripting languages dark ages.

Insanely fast was making 8 bit games possible at all.

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xtracto 13 hours ago | parent [-]

More or less. I think the use of CPU specific instructions can make an compiled program different than "the rest". Although nowadays some compilers are clever enough to do better than manual optimization.

	▲	pjmlp 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Michael Abrash wrote about such optimizations on the late 90's regarding Pentium versus its predecessors, and then everyone started using Python, Ruby, whatever for full stack applications, beyond plain OS scripting tasks.