It seems a bit premature to claim high performance without having a story for memory. I'm sure ocaml, swift, and basically all languages that do any type of runtime garbage collection would be significantly faster without it.
That's a fair comment. I will say however that the references to performance are more an attempt to keep it in mind from the beginning, rather than being an assertion at this point. I only began working on it shortly after my mom passed away last month (it's dedicated and named after her), so at this stage I'm mostly goal setting and rapidly prototyping.
I hope you can take time to give it another look when its further along. Thanks!
This isn't to say that better performance isn't achievable in languages with manual memory management, but doing so often requires a special effort that just isn't going to happen most the time, for reasons of practicality.
That said, there are certain classes of program where the story is different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Language_Benchmar...