Yet it is our most successful attempt at making a performant programming language: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0252
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Performance measures in that paper were run on an an x86 CPU (Intel Quad Core2). If the OP is correct that x86 CPUs are optimized for running C, it is not surprising that C would run faster than other languages on an x86 CPU.
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