And the code might be faster, too, like in that 2005 series of articles by Raymond Chen and Rico Mariani (in which one of them wrote a program in C++ and the other wrote the same program in C#).

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060731-15/?p=30...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ricom/perfor...

Titles for future searchers:

"Just because I don't write about .NET doesn't mean that I don't like it"

"Performance Quiz #6 -- Chinese/English Dictionary reader"