Goose: 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe

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Faster than C++ and than safe Rust, while memory safe. Function values are compile-time entities, so Plain C in, plain C out. Goose compiles to one C file, so it runs wherever a C compiler does and calls C directly through extern fn.

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