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Yes.

Look for some applications your code needs to be as fast as possible. When your company is writing the software and spending 50million / year on HW taking a slight speed hit to use your favorite tool is not always an option.

PS: Consider how much money Honda spends on processing power for their engines and how much a 5% speed hit would cost them to fix by buying better HW.




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