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>   I have, with Perl, Java, and C++.  C is consistently the fastest and
> has the smallest memory footprint.

When I switched from college to industry, I went from a C/mainframe
world to a DOS/PC world.  I rewrote all my favorite Unix utilities
(mv, rm, cp, ls, etc) in 8086 assembler.  I wrote a *lot* of assembler
those days, and could code up apps in asm about as fast as similar
apps in C, but mine only took a handful of bytes to run, and ran
blazingly fast.  For a demo, see the stub loader for djgpp - it's 2k
of hand-coded assembler that does everything needed to run a 32-bit
app.

So, it's all relative.

These days it's mostly C++, although I wish they'd've stopped adding
to C++ about 20 years ago when it was a clean and useful language :-)