Except Windows loves COM, and it is all about DLLs and out-of-process IPC.
Those gains have materialized in distributed computing, where the 1% cases where C++ wins in micro-benchmarks don't really matter, when network latency, databases, load balancers and the whole lot come into play.
Those gains have materialized in distributed computing, where the 1% cases where C++ wins in micro-benchmarks don't really matter, when network latency, databases, load balancers and the whole lot come into play.