Can a language ever be faster than its parent language?

• Ally

  2 9 3.5 JavaScript

  Pronounced L-I, Ally is a programming language with semi-optional types.

• cmlib

  2 70 4.0 Standard ML

  A basic library of algorithms and data structures (a la NJlib)

  

I am not the first one to come up with this idea, but I rediscovered it independently. Also, cmlib's implementation uses partial functions, whereas mine uses only total ones.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• typhoon

  2 5 3.8 Standard ML

  Typeful data structures and algorithms (by eduardoleon)

I did the same thing for maps backed by prefix trees, in particular crit-bit trees. However, these are just specialized search trees for bit string keys.

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