Fastest practical language

I know this is subjective so there is no one answer but I would like to hear your opinions anyway.

Which language has the fastest performance for most tasks while still being practical to write in?

>>23
Christ sake, calm down it's not like the guy fucked your mother. Why is it that fucking C weenies lose all their shit when it comes to questions of performance. No, it's not likely that the program was 20x faster. Yes, it is likely that they guys C was not infact "hand tuned". Any reasonable man would have thought that.