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My very first job was with a web app startup years ago that had written all the CGIs in C for "bitchin' fast speed". They didn't use any "framework", they just wrote C that printf()ed each page.

I quit around the time they realized that random segfaults was a high price to pay for a speed boost over perl that would be considered incremental at best, considering that the speed gains are dwarfed by the latency introduced using http over the internet.