Embedded Programming with Modern C++ Cookbook

Looking at performance implications

Most embedded applications are optimized for performance. As discussed earlier, the target CPU is chosen to be cost-efficient and developers extract all the computation power that it is capable of. An additional factor is communication with peripheral hardware. This often requires precise and fast reaction times. As a result, there is only limited room for the scripting, interpretable, bytecode languages such as Python or Java. Most of the embedded programs are written in languages that compile into the native code, primarily C and C++.

To achieve maximum performance, embedded programs utilize all the performance optimization capabilities of compilers. Modern compilers are so good at code optimization that ...