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is generally more challenging, but does allow for optimizations that are not possible with a high-level language. This abstraction penalty for using a high-level language instead of a low-level language is real, but in practice, low-level optimizations rarely improve performance at the user experience level. None the less, code that needs to run quickly and efficiently may require the use of a lower-level language, even if a higher-level language would make

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