title: Under Linux, is there any language that offers lower latency than C? (apart from assembler)
body: <p>I've been looking at various languages (mostly functional) that offer some great potential for throughput and concurrency. However, for latency sensitive applications (by which I mean the potential to respond to an event &lt; 1ms) seems to be beyond them. </p>
  
  <p>I can do this in C, but I was wondering if anything had come along offering low latency and high concurrency, or are they (as I suspect) mutually exclusive?</p>
  
  <p>Note: In a previous question there was a lot of discussion over the "mutually exclusive" bit - but I think it stands - if you need extremely low latency, you cannot get massive concurrency. I would absolutely love to be proven wrong on this! :-)</p>