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== Abstraction penalty ==

High-level languages intend to provide features whichthat standardize common tasks, permit rich debugging, and maintain architectural agnosticism; while low-level languages often produce more efficient code through [[program optimization|optimization]] for a specific system architecture. ''Abstraction penalty'' is the cost that high-level programming techniques pay for being unable to optimize performance or use certain hardware because they don't take advantage of certain low-level architectural resources. High-level programming exhibits features like more generic data structures and operations, run-time interpretation, and intermediate code files; which often result in execution of far more operations than necessary, higher memory consumption, and larger binary program size.<ref>{{cite journal

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|title=Meta-Compilation of Language Abstractions.